tightening requirements... sorta

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:00:17 +0200 Nick Schermer wrote:

> 2008/8/9 Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:
> > So, I'd like to propose making gamin/FAM a "soft required"
> > dependency for Thunar.  This really just amounts to a configure
> > script change.  If you just run configure with no arguments, and
> > gamin/FAM isn't present, then the configure script errors out, with
> > a message telling you to install it, or if you *really* don't want
> > it, to pass --disable-change-notification to configure, in which
> > case it'll let you compile without gamin/FAM.
> 
> I'm ok with the change, but how many times is the fam deamon not
> running? It only fixes a part of the problem...

Yeah, I thought about that, but -- as other replies in the thread have
noted -- gamin seems to be preferred, and at least this would be a step
in the right direction.  Of course we can't start famd if they're using
FAM, but in my experience answering this question over and over, it's
literally *always* been people without support compiled in.  I've
(personally) never seen anyone complaining of this problem where the
solution turned out to be "start famd."  YMMV, of course.