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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:00:37 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        Willy Picard <picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Conflict between avahi and howl/mDNSResponder
Message-ID:  <52AF0081-9DDA-42E4-B0AC-BFFE94FDBABD@brooknet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20060707092511.GA928@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl>
References:  <20060706111154.GB1282@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <966BB28D-B69A-410E-9A65-CC8652A7CD20@brooknet.com.au> <20060707092511.GA928@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl>

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On 07/07/2006, at 7:25 PM, Willy Picard wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:11PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:
>> On 06/07/2006, at 9:11 PM, Willy Picard wrote:
>>
>>> Currently, avahi conflicts with howl/mDNSResponder. As a user of   
>>> KDE, I have
>>> plenty of applications that depend on mDNSResponder. But at the   
>>> same time, I
>>> am a user of OpenOffice.org, Firefox, eclipse and many others  
>>> that  depend on
>>> avahi (mainly because of gnome-vfs). The current conflict has the  
>>> following
>>> consequence: I cannot update the applications that depend on  
>>> avahi  because
>>> avahi cannot be updated. Therefore, my question is the following:  
>>> what
>>> should I do to have Firefox, OpenOffice.org and the like updated?  
>>> Should I
>>> delete  avahi and force a dependence of these applications with
>>> howl/mDNSResponder?  Should I wait till Gnome and KDE find an  
>>> agreement on
>>> this conflict :) ?
>>
>> This has been raised a number of times, check the archives.
>
> First, thank you very much for this very interesting  
> contribution!!! This is a
> real good piece of help!

I thought so too, I'm glad you're enthusiastic about it




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