gamin vs fam

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org>:

> Jean-Yves Lefort schrieb:
>
>> The first part of your statement is not right. Gamin has been
>> successfully tested by a considerable number of GNOME users during the
>> last 9 months or so.
>
> My statement was about flipping the USE_FAM default and it is obviously
> correct:
>
> - Nobody checked for ports that depend on fam directly (instead of using
> USE_FAM).
>
> - FAM_SYSTEM_FAM and FAM_SYSTEM_GAMIN use the same dependency file,
> meaning that on systems that already had fam installed, portupgrade will
> now register dependencies on gamin without actually installing it,
> leaving most users and portupgrade confused.
>
> - Gamin still only implements a subset of fam's functionality and until
> that changes should *never* become the default -> POLA.
>
> Quite frankly, I think whoever in portmgr approved this change should go
> to storage, fetch themselves a nice pointy hat from storage and then
> back out this mess.

While this is being decided.  What is the recommended work-around for 
those of us who depend on courier/fam and are now seeing "Stale 
dependency" on most kde and gnome ports when running pkgdb -F? This 
makes using portupgrade a bit of a hassle.

Thanks,

ed

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