Re: Bug#149714: libfam0 Does not depend on fam

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Hi,

From: Cedric Ware <cedric.ware@enst.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug#149714: libfam0 Does not depend on fam
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:30:02 +0200

> I do use dselect and have no use for a local famd, and am somewhat annoyed
> by this change in stable.  (I have a vague recollection that dependencies
> in stable should not change, but I can't find anything about it in policy,
> so I must be mistaken.)

Please add me to the list of annoyed people (-;

> Well, I'm not sure about how not to do it since, as you say, dselect does
> now pester about it.  If famd is not to run locally, one must either use
> 'Q' to tell dselect to really not touch it - which, for all intents and
> purposes, defeats the dependencies - or comment it in /etc/inetd.conf,
> but AFAIG there is no guarantee that a future upgrade of the fam package
> will not reactivate it.
> 
> Or is there a better way?

I'd like to know the answer to this question as well.