[kde-freebsd] gamin/fam issues with KDE

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Fri Dec 15 11:57:08 PST 2006


dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 14 Dec Bastiaan Welmers wrote:
> 
>> One nasty thing is that when afterwards installing a package requiring
>> gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent this you could just "fake"
>> the pkg db that gamin is installed however actually fam libraries are
>> installed.
> 
> And how exactly is this "faking" done? I'm no fan of gamin too and if
> possible I compiled my programs for fam. But this sounds nice ;-)
> 

Not sure what the original poster was refering to, but I just put 
WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam in my /etc/make.conf back when they first started 
changing ports over to gamin, and have not had any problems since.

HTH,
Micah


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