The fam/gamin issue in sarge

[Hugo van der Merwe <hugo@dsp.sun.ac.za>]

I was curious, when I noticed gamin was not in sarge, what the deal is 
with fam? My previous experiences was that fam stops the user from 
unmounting automatically mounted removable media (available when pmount 
is installed), and the solution I went for was to install gamin instead 
of fam (also the choice Ubuntu made). I have not made a clean sarge 
install, so I don't know what the defaults are: does Sarge support 
automounting of removable media in Gnome "out of the box"? (I found all 
I had to do was install pmount, and replace fam with gamin, to have it 
all work.)

The fam bug feels a little RC to me, sometimes, when my family phones to 
say they cannot get the CD out... (I have since replaced the home 
computer's fam with gamin too.) The simplest solution was "just reboot 
and open the drive when the machine is booting", easier than explaining 
"su", giving the root password, and "killall famd" commands over the 
telephone...

Hugo