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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] zeroconf/avahi USE flag
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:34:45
Message-Id: 1225820135.24183.4.camel@woix.comwax.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] zeroconf/avahi USE flag by Doug Goldstein
1 Le mardi 04 novembre 2008 à 12:11 -0500, Doug Goldstein a écrit :
2 > Hey all,
3 >
4 > A few ebuilds treat things differently with regard to this situation
5 > and
6 > it really needs to get rectified.
7 [snip]
8 > Maybe we should clean the whole thing up and do like net-misc/ntp does
9 > it. Thoughts?
10
11 since I'm lazy:
12
13 18:28 < EvaSDK> Cardoe: about zeroconf/avahi thing, avahi shouldn't have
14 ever existed indeed
15 18:28 < EvaSDK> the thing is that some apps could use both avahi and
16 howl but had different ways to enable them so one
17 thought it would be smart to create avahi use flag,
18 and it spread all over the tree while zeroconf was the
19 right one to use
20 18:29 < Cardoe> EvaSDK: comment on the ML threads
21
22 in fact some even had the mdnsresponder/howl/avahi USE flags at the same
23 time iirc. A cleanup would indeed be a good idea imho.