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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd: disable zerconf
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:26:11
Message-Id: 20180123032549.GB14871@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd: disable zerconf by mad.scientist.at.large@tutanota.com
1 On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:29:36PM +0100, mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com wrote
2 > it's mostly from the evil centos days (after it was bought out).
3
4 CentOS is a free Redhat clone. Zeroconf (Avahi) is Lennart-ware that
5 you-know-who got into Redhat's OS.
6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29 It's probably
7 impossible to pull Avahi out of Redhat / CentOS, just like with Systemd
8 and Pulseaudio.
9
10 > I assume similiar files are involved with gentoo...
11
12 It should not be mandatory in Gentoo, per se. If you have avahi
13 installed, try "emerge -p --depclean avahi" first, before doing it for
14 real.
15
16 --
17 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
18 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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