* [gentoo-dev] Global useflags zeroconf and avahi
@ 2013-04-01 21:58 99% Andreas K. Huettel
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From: Andreas K. Huettel @ 2013-04-01 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi everyone,
first of all, I'm not really an expert in this stuff, so feel free to tell me
about any mis-assumptions...
As far as I can see, we have two global useflags:
avahi - Add avahi/Zeroconf support
zeroconf - Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD)
"Zeroconf" describes a service autodiscovery and autoconfiguration standard,
see [1]. Avahi is the implementation of that standard which we have in the
portage tree [2]. Other implementations are mDNSResponder (which was in the
tree some time ago but got kicked out) and Apple's Bonjour (which never was in
the tree and probably never will be).
I would like to suggest unifying use-flag usage, and use "zeroconf" anywhere.
Opinions?
Cheers,
Andreas
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29
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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/
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