From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 29 11:28:07 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 EADF216A420 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:28:07 +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 983B443D46 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from arwen.nagual.st (arwen.nagual.st [192.168.11.29]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:28:06 +0100 id 0003982E.43DCA6C6.00000888 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:28:06 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsd-ports Message-Id: <20060129122806.4e58ae2d.dick@nagual.st> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0beta6 (GTK+ 2.8.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: 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: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:28:08 -0000 Upgrading my ports collection I noticed a lot of ports that wanted to install gamin. This didn't work though, cause files are installed at the same place as FAM (already installed on my system as a dep of courier). Running pkgdb -F everytime is not pleasant. What is (are) the advantage (s) of gamin over fam? Is it wise to change to gamin? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 ++ The Power to Serve