As seen in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746111 If compiled with the daemon and avahi support, then it's better to require avahi at the rpm level to avoid daemon startup errors. diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 5537c51..dd5e32f 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -272,6 +272,9 @@ Requires: %{name}-client = %{version}-%{release} Requires: module-init-tools # for /sbin/ip & /sbin/tc Requires: iproute +%if ! %{with_avahi} +Requires: avahi +%endif %endif %if %{with_network} Requires: dnsmasq >= 2.41 -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list