Gamin and fam conflict...

[David J Brooks]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:23, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > Deinstall fam and install gamin (or vice-versa, they are functionally the
> > same.) Then run portsdb -Fu to update dependencies from fam to gamin.
> > Read
> > man 1 portsdb for more details.
>
> The portsdb won't help, which it's for INDEX stuff. You need to add
> WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin in make.conf, then do the -o in portupgrade to
> replace.
>
> 	portupgrade -f -o devel/gamin fam-\*
>
> If you arleady uninstall fam, then no need to use portupgrade and run kgdb
> -f'.

My mistake.. pkgdb -fu (not portsdb -fu) is what I was thinking of. I used to 
get the same conflict,. I think between firefox and gramps, and I would just 
install whichever one was asking to be installed right over the other. 
Unfortunately, that method had a tendency to break other packages. Changing 
fam dependents to gamin dependency solved the problem for me. KDE (which 
wants fam) works just fine with gamin instead.

David
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