Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 07/27/07 13:03 CST: > Speaking of new dependency issues, what can you tell us about avahi? I > tried using Garnome this week to build 2.18.3 and it tied a bunch of > stuff to avahi, but I can't tell if avahi (or hal, for that matter) is > required for full functionality or not.
Avahi is used to support Zeroconf browsing and device discovery. This was originally started by the Apple guys. If you don't know what Zeroconf is, you probably don't need Avahi. > As always, thanks for all the hard work you do so we don't have to! You are welcome! BTW - did you figure out the issue you were having with Yelp? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 13:07:01 up 15 days, 6:14, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.12, 0.09 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
