On 27 July 2013 23:58, 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? > > Yesterday I tried yum remove avahi on a RHEL 6 desktop, it wanted to remove quite a few packages. This seemed to stem mainly from a requirement from gnome-vfs, which required avahi-libs capability provided by avahi due to some files linking avahi libraries. That's the dependency system working correctly, if another library is linked then it must be a dependency. On F18 this morning I tried the same thing, and only nss-mdns and wine-core need to go, removing the separate avahi-libs package would lead to 409 dependencies being removed (most through gnome-vfs, but there may be some other paths), which is a separation of the daemon package from the libraries it provides and that other things may need to be built against. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- 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
