On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:48 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: > Hi, > > It's been over 7 years since the last upstream update and gamin provides > nearly all the functions without requiring a daemon and it uses inotify. > > As for NFS support, gamin monitors local events so it won't affect users > having the home on NFS [1]. > > I think we shouldn't support dead software and replace fam with gamin.
My thoughts on this subject: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-July/020963.html I'd say: drop where possible when native inotify exists, otherwise replace with gamin.
