On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:02:17AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 23:54, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > > 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? > > apt-cache show fam, and http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ should answer > your questions. It doesn't make it faster, it makes it accurate. > > Well, it kinda makes it faster too because it wouldn't poll hard on the > files when monitoring them... > > Having portmap running is a bit useless indeed, especially on desktop > systems where fam would be just about the only daemon making use of it.
Will portmap be run even if you don't have any kind of remote filesystem mounted ? It should be able to know about this and not launch portmap if it is not needed, but you still would need to install portmap though. Friendly, Sven Luther
