ports/92592: Revert USE_FAM default to fam

[Michael Nottebrock]

>Number:         92592
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Revert USE_FAM default to fam
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 31 08:50:06 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Michael Nottebrock
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD vm-kiste 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Sun Oct 16 18:16:21 CEST 2005 root at kiste:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KISTE-UP i386


	
>Description:
	The default dependency triggered by the USE_FAM switch was recently
	changed from fam to gamin. I'd like to see this change reverted for
	the following reasons:

	- On systems that already had fam installed, portupgrade will
	now register dependencies on gamin without actually installing it,
	leaving most users and portupgrade confused. This is because
	FAM_SYSTEM_FAM and FAM_SYSTEM_GAMIN use the same dependency file.

	- Gamin still only implements a subset of fam's functionality and
	until that changes should not become the default for POLA reasons
	(also it is not too uncommon even for desktop machines to want working
	file alteration monitoring on NFS directories).

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