> > On 10/13/05, Trever L. Adams <tadams-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is this something that RedHat/Fedora should follow Debian/Gaim on? > > > > As soon as programs in Core require it I'm sure that its going to get > > sucked in to Core. > > > > The more important question is... now that gaim is going to use > > avahi... what else in Fedora Core requires howl..and can those other > > items be made to use avahi as well? > > It would be best if howl could be replaced completely in Core with > > avahi to avoid duplication of functionality with multuple > > implementations. > > > > rawhide>repoquery --whatrequires libhowl.so.0 > > gnome-games-1:2.12.1-1.i386 in Core > > gnomemeeting-0:1.2.2-2.i386 in Core > > gnome-vfs2-0:2.12.1.1-1.i386 in Core > > obby-0:0.2.0-5.fc5.i386 in Extras > > I'll try to find some time to port gnome-vfs2. I think it makes sense to > switch to Avahi. According to this blog entry http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/avahi-compat the avahi guys have created a compatibility layer for howl/bonjour that runs with gnome-vfs2, nautilus etc. so we should be able to replace howl with the soon to be released 0.6 of avahi while everything gets ported to native avahi. Pete -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
