Gnome Installation Question

wharez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 104

I have finally emerged Gnome and I have followed through the instructions on the "Gnome configuration HOWTO", however once I got to the instructions:

ecatmur · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:53 am Post subject:

Not if you have gamin installed.
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thasheep · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

Fam (File Alteration Monitor) keeps track of files and the famd initscript gets the daemon running when you boot your system. If you want to run it, emerge fam. BUUUttt, I think that howto must be a little old because the Gentoo Gnome Desktop Project recommends using gamin instead of fam. Gamin (emerge gamin if you want it and don't already have it) doesn't need to be run as a daemon. Neither is essential and gnome will be quite happy without them but its probably best to have one or the other (but not both).