> As I told, I think that the default should be disabled (as that would > correct for most of the debian users). But I agree that the > enabling/disabling should be easy; and not only per system, zeroconf > insists on several systems like avahi, link local, mdns, ...
Atleast on Ubuntu You are asked if you select for optional software. >> > And even worse, debian is often used on server platforms where you never >> > ever want to have any such magically configured services. >> >> Since avahi isn't a dependency of anything you'd want to install on a >> server -- I personally have never installed gnome on a server, for >> instance -- it usually isn't. > > True. But sometimes you need a software component on the server that you > usually only use on laptops or desktops. One example is the > wpa-supplicant, that is common to test radius servers. It should not be > that this accidentally leads to zeroconf components with the > dependencies. (I did not check if that is the case in my example above.) > Agree zeroconf is something similar and seems to have misquoted in this case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimcvjdfvyvwuf7eeq5mu7gseuuoc8cglciqz...@mail.gmail.com
