On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:58:24 +0200 lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxx> 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: Removing: avahi x86_64 0.6.31-6.fc18 @fedora 1.0 M Removing for dependencies: mingw32-wine-gecko mingw64-wine-gecko nss-mdns nss-mdns wine-alsa wine-capi wine-capi wine-cms wine-cms wine-common wine-core wine-core wine-desktop wine-ldap wine-ldap wine-openal wine-openal wine-pulseaudio wine-pulseaudio wine-twain wine-twain wine-wow Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================= Remove 1 Package (+22 Dependent packages) So it's just nss-mdns and wine & friends. 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. ;-) HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
