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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:04:30
Message-Id: 200810120804.22569.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder by "Alan E. Davis"
1 On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
2 > Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are
3 > blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other
4 > problems were cleared up, and this
5 > avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just
6 > keeps coming back even when solved by some skullduggery. I've removed
7 > both of them at one time or another.
8 >
9 > [blocks B ] net-dns/avahi ("net-dns/avahi" is blocking
10 > net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5)
11 >
12 > [blocks B ] net-misc/mDNSResponder ("net-misc/mDNSResponder" is
13 > blocking net-dns/avahi-0.6.23)
14 >
15 > I guess the problem is that I am running gnome and also have two or
16 > three different versions/slots of kde installed. I suppose, then,
17 > it's remarkable that only these blocks are showing up?
18 >
19 > Can someone lend a hand on this? Anything I do is little more than
20 > blind tinkering.
21 >
22 > Alan
23
24 set the avahi useflag, unmerge mdnsresponder, emerge avahi.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>