Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi,
> An explicit mention somewhere of the role avahi plays would have clued me in > to how this is achieved and saved me a bit of time. As it happens I use Unfortunately that template is already too long to fit in a standard terminal, so making it longer was not really an option :/ > --no-install-recommends with apt-get and got network scanning going by > configuring the client, so I never found out whether mDNS discovery works. > With avahi-daemon demoted to a 'Suggests' in Sid it might be beneficial to > modify the advice to users. The mDNS support is unfinished in a number of ways, so unless I can get back to working on it, I'm probably going to disable it for Squeeze. Currently the discovery in the net backend doesn't work very well; it's racy and there are issues with updating the device list at runtime that render the whole mDNS thing not very useful in the end. Also I haven't received any feedback about it; I worked on this to make the user experience on the desktop better, but it didn't pick up. mDNS would probably works best if integrated in the application rather than in the backend :/ JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <jbla...@debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
