On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:53:44PM -0400, SJ_UnderWater wrote:
>       I recently tried to submit a package for mDNSResponder to AUR and it 
> was rejected, saying that mDNSResponder is on the blacklist, but after some 
> searching, I wasn't able to find any reference to it in the repositories or 
> the blacklist reason. I realize that avahi provides the same functionality, 
> but I'm willing to support MDNSR and it has become an optional dependency for 
> Netatalk's newest alpha, so I would like to be able to link against it.
>       The open-source package itself isn't the best-supported by Apple, but 
> with a little work it's perfectly usable and provides the "official" 
> solution; the IETF has asked Apple to submit mDNS as a standards track RFC 
> [http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt]. The 
> fact that it's lightweight (184KiB, no deps) doesn't hurt either.
>       See the PKGBUILD at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1088978

Hi,

mdnsresponder is a provide/conflict/replace of avahi, which is why
you're being blocked from uploading it from the AUR. Whether or not
that's intended is another story.

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