Philipp A. Hartmann wrote: > But still it's only a Recommends. Therefore, rhythmbox needs to handle > the absence og avahi-daemon gracefully, since you cannot rely on it's > installation. For sake of plug-and-play and comfort, this might be even > done in some kind of GUI message, which tells the user what to do, if > he/she wants to access a feature, that requires the daemon's presence.
If avahi is not running, rhythmbox prints this to std(something) on startup and/or when you enble sharing in its prefs: (rhythmbox:24998): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to start mDNS browsing (rhythmbox:24998): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to notify network of music sharing Otherwise it behaves fine. -- see shy jo
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