Re: [Bastille-linux-discuss] Whitebox 3 errors

[Kurt S. <lis...@se...>]

SGI FAM is the:

"FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides a daemon and an API which
applications can use for notification of changes in specific files or
directories."

Packages that require fam (roughly speaking):

gnome-vfs2
k3b
kdbg
kde* (kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartworok .... kdeutils)
koffice
nautilus
quanta (html editor for kde)

Packages that require gnome-vfs2:

devhelp
eel2
gnome-desktop-devel
gnome-python2-gnomevfs
gtkhtml2
libgnome (and by extension all things gnome)
libgnomeui (and by extension all things gnome)
openoffice
yelp

Basically fam is used to provide change notification of files/etc, this is
primarily used by GUI apps that have file browser components, thus if you
leave the gui file browser app open to your home directory say it doesn't
get out of date, i.e. if you delete or modify a file the GUI gets notified
and updates. If you don't need KDE/Gnome you can toss it. If you use
KDE/Gnome but are willing to live with out of date GUI file browser windows,
toss it. If it's a user's desktop, that's probably the only time to keep it.

Kurt Seifried, ku...@se...
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