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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:35:40
Message-Id: 1329554068.2749.2.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal by "Paweł Hajdan
1 El lun, 13-02-2012 a las 12:06 +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió:
2 > On 2/13/12 11:55 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > El jue, 09-02-2012 a las 12:41 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
4 > >> Hello
5 > >>
6 > >> Looks like our net-misc/mDNSResponder packages are orphan and
7 > >> unmaintained for a looong time, they also have some opened bugs (with
8 > >> hangs, build problems...) and looks like avahi with mdns compat can
9 > >> replace it.
10 > >>
11 > >> OK with masking it for removal? If not, is anyone willing to maintain
12 > >> it?
13 > >
14 > > OK to start dropping it from dependencies and mask it for removal?
15 >
16 > Since there was no response to the original e-mail... I second this.
17 >
18 > +1 to remove the mess.
19 >
20
21 I guess will be safer to drop mDNSResponder deps with a revbump to force
22 people to rebuild them against avahi instead of mDNSResponder, no?

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