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On Thursday 18 March 2010 19:55:14 Dale wrote: |
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> James wrote: |
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> > Dale<rdalek1967<at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> >> [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls |
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> >> java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php |
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> >> -samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja |
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> >> -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB |
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> > I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not |
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> > see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those |
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> > flags? |
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> > Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ? |
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> > curiously, |
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> > James |
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> I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If |
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> I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it |
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> on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. |
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> May as well be Greek. ;-) |
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Hmm ... they're not. Avahi is daemon utilising multicast DNS and DNS Service |
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Discovery for devices and services which are advertising themselves on your |
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network. Zeroconf is the standard used for this purpose. Unless you expect |
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to plug and play I am not sure you need them on your machine. I think that |
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for a typical setup where you tell your PCs where the printer is there isn't |
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much benefit to justifying installing their dependencies and running a |
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daemon. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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