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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:41:04
Message-Id: 4AA37595.1050709@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Sunday 06 September 2009 01:17:21 Mick wrote:
3 >
4 >> Well, on my system it is kdelibs that pull it in:
5 >>
6 >> # emerge --depclean -pv net-misc/mDNSResponder
7 >>
8 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
9 >> net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5 pulled in by:
10 >> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6
11 >>
12 >> despite the fact that I do not have avahi and zeroconf USE flags enabled
13 >> either in kdelibs or cups:
14 >> =======================================
15 >> # emerge -pDv kde-base/kdelibs
16 >>
17 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
18 >>
19 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
20 >> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 USE="acl alsa branding cups
21 >> fam spell
22 >> tiff -arts -avahi -bindist -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdehiddenvisibility
23 >> -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter" 0 kB
24 >>
25 >>
26 >
27 > Recent kde-libs-3.5 have a hard dependency on zeroconf/nDSNResponder. A
28 > contentious decision at the time
29 >
30 > KDE-4 uses avahi
31 >
32 >
33
34 There is hope for the future, if I ever get to liking KDE 4. I got KDE
35 4.3 installed but just ain't warmed up to it yet. :\
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)

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