FS#6522 - samba depends on fam

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Joel Kaasinen (opqdonut) - Sunday, 04 March 2007, 09:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Samba depends on fam. Is there a reason for this? People not using gnome or kde have very little incentive to install fam. I have included a patch that removes the dependency from the PKGBUILD.
(application/octet-stream)    arch_samba_nofam.patch (1.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 04 March 2007, 10:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 04 March 2007, 10:33 GMT
There's a reason for having fam as dependency: since samba does not support inotify, it needs some way to monitor changes to the filesystem that happen by something else than samba. On a linux system it's very common that an SMB share is also exported as NFS for access by linux clients. Without fam, samba has to fallback for polling or do nothing at all with file changes, which is bad.

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