* Joe Marcus Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Glib 2.16 (with GIO) was designed to support pluggable file monitor > backends. Without one such backend, any libgio consumer would be > severely handicapped. The only reason gio-fam-backend is broken out as > a separate port is that we have one FAM provider that requires glib. If > this was not the case, we'd just have glib20 depend on FAM. > > Recompiling alone is not sufficient. Ports will happily build without > this backend, but may not run correctly if they require libgio. The > cost of the FAM dependency is minimal (most GNOME apps already had this > as part of gnome-vfs), and it just makes things easier for developers > not to have to worry about adding the gio-fam-backend dependency. Still seems like a strange hack to me. Isn't gamin a daemon? I think having an extra daemon in a system should be optional, especially if it's not needed for most apps (I mean gtk apps, not gnome).
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