On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:58, Ian McKellar wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 11:31, Stephen Depooter wrote: > > Oh OK. That makes sense then. And libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam so it > > ahould be all right. I just use apt-get instead of aptitude so it never > > got pulled in. More reason to use aptitude. > > libgnomevfs2-0 depends on libgnomevfs2-common which depends on > libfam0c102 - the fam client library. I'd be in favour of having > something depend on the fam daemon (package: fam). The only disadvantage > of that I can think of is that fam depends on portmap (the rpc > portmapper crack). > That of course is insufficient since it is fam itself that needs to be installed.
> Perhaps depending on fam in gnome-core or something would make sense - > so that if someone installs somethings that happens to depend on > gnome-vfs they don't get a port opened up on their machine but if they > want the gnome desktop they get a working setup by default. > Something like this would seem to make sense as fam also enhances the functionality of other things in Gnome such as Nautilus to the best of my knowledge. -- Stephen Depooter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

