On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > charles norwood wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > >> > >>>Hi list. > >>>What applications use famd? > >>>man -k famd > >>>famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon > >>>Thanks, > >>>Chuck > >>> > >>$ apt-cache rdepends fam > >>fam > >>Reverse Depends: > >> stopmotion > >> gamin > >> doodled > >> apachetop > >> lincvs > >> libgnomevfs2-0 > >> libfam0c102 > >> |gnome-desktop-environment > >> gnome-commander > >> education-desktop-gnome > >> apachetop > >> > I get a larger list - see below. Also, that list includes Gamin, which > actually conflicts with fam. In fact, I'm confused. If I try to install > fam, it tries to rip out a lot of Gnome stuff, and some other things, > like Samba. This is apparently because these things need Gamin, which > according to it's description is a subset of fam. Why would all these > packages require a subset of fam, but not take fam itself? > Hi Matthew, if the programs that were going to be removed could not use a newer version of fam, they would be removed (ie. they conflict with it), IIUC. Thus you would have to upgrade those programs to a version that would work with the newer version. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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