Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:58:24 +0200
lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)alice.it> writes:
>
> > But my real query is whether avahi (or zeroconf)
> > could actually offer me anything useful.
>
> Hmm I disabled it now and will see what happens. There are 224
> packages depending on the avahi package --- that's insane for
> something that isn't needed.
>
> Why are there so many packages depending on it?
Not on my system (F18/64bit/KDE), there are only 22 of them depending
on avahi, and most of them are just wine-related. If I didn't need wine
or nss-mdns, I could remove it no problem:
So it's just nss-mdns and wine & friends.
It would even remove imagemagick, emacs, vlc, ddd, fvwm, the NVIDIA
drivers and a lot of other packages I need.
OTOH, if you are running, say, Gnome3 or such, then you should ask
the
relevant developers on the relevant mailing list why oh why do they
depend on avahi so much. ;-)
I don't --- I could ask on the fvwm mailing list if fvwm needs avahi,
and I bet it doesn't.
Perhaps yum has messed up the dependencies?
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