Package: avahi-utils Version: 0.6.31-4+b1 Severity: normal Hi,
I wanted to get a list of all mDNS services in my local network. Thus I installed avahi-utils and everything worked fine. But much later I discovered that I had a new service running in the background of my system: avahi-daemon. It must've been installed together with avahi-utils as avahi-utils depends on avahi-daemon. I stopped the avahi-daemon process and can confirm that avahi-browse works just fine without the avahi-daemon running. Thus I think it is unnecessary to force a new service being installed when avahi-utils is installed. I see several ways to solve this problem: avahi-daemon could move from a Depends to a Recommends of avahi-utils because obviously the daemon is not needed for some functionality the package avahi-utils provides The avahi-browse program could be split into a separate package which does not Depend on avahi-daemon (in case other software in avahi-utils has a hard requirement of avahi-daemon). What do you think? cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
