Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:58:24 +0200 > lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > >> Timothy Murphy <gayle...@alice.it> writes: >> >> > But my real query is whether avahi (or zeroconf) >> > could actually offer me anything useful. >> >> Hmm I disabled it now and will see what happens. There are 224 >> packages depending on the avahi package --- that's insane for >> something that isn't needed. >> >> Why are there so many packages depending on it? > > Not on my system (F18/64bit/KDE), there are only 22 of them depending > on avahi, and most of them are just wine-related. If I didn't need wine > or nss-mdns, I could remove it no problem: > > So it's just nss-mdns and wine & friends.
It would even remove imagemagick, emacs, vlc, ddd, fvwm, the NVIDIA drivers and a lot of other packages I need. > OTOH, if you are running, say, Gnome3 or such, then you should ask the > relevant developers on the relevant mailing list why oh why do they > depend on avahi so much. ;-) I don't --- I could ask on the fvwm mailing list if fvwm needs avahi, and I bet it doesn't. Perhaps yum has messed up the dependencies? -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
