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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:07:23
Message-Id: 4F398961.2090900@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal by "Paweł Hajdan
1 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
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
22 I just noticed this:
23
24 kde-base/kdelibs-4.8.0-r1 (!bindist ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
25 kde-base/krdc-4.8.0 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
26 media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.11-r1 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
27 net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p4 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
28
29
30 I'm assuming this is not going to break something.
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-)
35
36 --
37 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
38 how you interpreted my words!
39
40 Miss the compile output? Hint:
41 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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