From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 16:12:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1516116A420 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:12:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680CB43D45 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:12:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:12:35 +0100 id 0003982E.43DE3AF3.00002E57 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:12:34 +0100 To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060130161234.GA11825@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20060129122806.4e58ae2d.dick@nagual.st> <43DCB258.70304@freebsd.org> <20060129220456.01f68e6f.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <43DD3EB3.9070407@freebsd.org> <20060130051859.rhe6tai280wwkgk4@mail.encontacto.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060130051859.rhe6tai280wwkgk4@mail.encontacto.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: dick hoogendijk Cc: Subject: Re: gamin vs fam X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:12:38 -0000 On 30 Jan eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Michael Nottebrock : > >- 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. I have changed this for most kde/gnome ports to FAM. Hope this will not harm the system too much ;-) But a real solution would be nice. I also totally agree to the statement that a replacement has to be *fully* compliant to the replaced piece of software. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve