> It's a compile-time option for GnomeVFS, but given that ours is compiled > with FAM support, it seems silly to not have it used by default. I'd > at least vote for a Recommends (in the libgnomevfs2-0 package), and > given that the fam package is only about 200k, I can't imagine anyone > reasonably complaining about a Depends.
Well, I don't complain about the Depends itself, but I find the run-time footprint a bit annoying: fam depends on portmap, so we need to have two running processes (fam and portmap). It's starting to look like bloat... What are the advantages of FAM, does it make Gnome faster? Cheers, Eloy.-
