Re: [opensuse-factory] fam vs. gaming

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

On zondag 2 oktober 2011 13:00:58 todd rme wrote:

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On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Freek de Kruijf wrote:

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On zondag 2 oktober 2011 10:45:12 todd rme wrote:

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It looks like openSUSE currently ships fam.  However, it looks like KDE at least says gaming is better than fam, at the very least because gaming doesn't require a system-wide daemon while fam does.  Is there another overriding reason why fam is used instead of gaming?

I am a bit puzzled by this message. AFAIK fam means File Alteration Monitor and I fail to understand that a package called gaming has anything to do with that. Besides I can't find a package gaming in the oss or non-oss repositories.

The fam package in 12.1 is broken, it does not start at all. I need it to run courier-imap and courier-imap-ssl, so 12.1 is not usable for me at the moment. AFAIK fam is rather closely related to courier, so replacing it with something else is probably not easy. So maybe I have to move to something which replaces courier, Dovecot?

Sorry, it was a typo.  I meant "gamin", which is a drop-in replacement to fam, not "gaming".

However I can't find gamin in the oss or non-oss repositories, not even as a file name.

Yes, I know, that is what I am asking about. Gamin is available in several OBS repositories, including devel:libraries:c and c++, but it is not shipped as part of factory. I am trying to find out if there is a reason for this or if factory should include it. If you are right and fam isn't working at all this is all the more reason to use gaming. I don't know if they can be installed at the same time or not. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org