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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: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:31:13
Message-Id: 1329211827.2556.4.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal by Dale
1 El lun, 13-02-2012 a las 16:06 -0600, Dale escribió:
2 > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
3 > > On 2/13/12 11:55 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
4 > >> El jue, 09-02-2012 a las 12:41 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
5 > >>> Hello
6 > >>>
7 > >>> Looks like our net-misc/mDNSResponder packages are orphan and
8 > >>> unmaintained for a looong time, they also have some opened bugs (with
9 > >>> hangs, build problems...) and looks like avahi with mdns compat can
10 > >>> replace it.
11 > >>>
12 > >>> OK with masking it for removal? If not, is anyone willing to maintain
13 > >>> it?
14 > >>
15 > >> OK to start dropping it from dependencies and mask it for removal?
16 > >
17 > > Since there was no response to the original e-mail... I second this.
18 > >
19 > > +1 to remove the mess.
20 > >
21 >
22 >
23 > I just noticed this:
24 >
25 > kde-base/kdelibs-4.8.0-r1 (!bindist ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
26
27 Then, bindist could be dropped from there as it's only there to allow
28 mDNSResponder usage over avahi.
29
30 > kde-base/krdc-4.8.0 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
31
32 It depends on:
33 zeroconf? (
34 || (
35 net-dns/avahi
36 net-misc/mDNSResponder
37 )
38 )
39
40
41 > media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.11-r1 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
42 > net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p4 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
43 >
44
45 The same
46
47 >
48 > I'm assuming this is not going to break something.
49 >
50 > Dale
51 >
52 > :-) :-)
53 >

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