Package: gnome-desktop-environment Version: 1:2.30+7 Severity: wishlist Alternate subject: Make gnome-user-share optional
Hi, gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-user-share which, eventually, depends on avahi-daemon. MDNS greatly slows down reverse dns (PTR) lookups when there is no PTR row in DNS, which is bad for VPNs that use RFC1918 addresses and other sorts of places where it's unlikely that they'll be a reverse lookup available via DNS. (It turns out that some of www.google.com does not have PTR rows so ping-ing without -n is strange.) So, I'd like to be able to remove avahi-daemon by removing gnome-user-share but can't without either removing all of gnome or manually running "aptitude unmarkauto" on all the dependencies of gnome-desktop-environment. I might be willing to do the latter but I'd miss out on new gnome goodies in the next debian release. (I don't run the desktop but like having the apps installed.) I could use the equivs package to fake out apt but it seems more appropriate that you do this and alter the depenedences of gnome-desktop-environment so that there is a new fake package that satisfies the gnome-user-share requirement. Or maybe you can come up with another way to avoid depending on avahi-daemon. Meanwhile the workaround I've used is to change the 'hosts:' line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to disable mdns and to change /etc/rd2.d/ so that avahi-daemon is not started. (mv S04avahi-daemon K04avahi-daemon; innserv) This is not entirely satisfactory because it leaves avahi-daemon installed and means there's more config file cruft to deal with when upgrading to the next stable release and will break anything else I happen to install that requires avahi-daemon. Thanks for listening. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on: ii alacarte 0.13.2-1 easy GNOME menu editing tool ii baobab 2.30.0-2 GNOME disk usage analyzer ii brasero 2.30.3-2 CD/DVD burning application for GNO ii cheese 2.30.1-2 A tool to take pictures and videos ii deskbar-applet 2.32.0-1 universal search and navigation ba ii ekiga 3.2.7-2 H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP clie ii empathy 2.30.3-1 GNOME multi-protocol chat and call ii fast-user-switch-applet 2.24.0-6 Applet for the GNOME panel providi ii gcalctool 5.30.2-2 GNOME desktop calculator ii gconf-editor 2.30.0-2 An editor for the GConf configurat ii gdm 2.20.11-4 GNOME Display Manager ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-backgrounds 2.32.0-1 a set of backgrounds packaged with ii gnome-bluetooth 2.30.0-2 GNOME Bluetooth tools ii gnome-core 1:2.30+7 The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e ii gnome-dictionary 2.30.0-2 GNOME dictionary application ii gnome-media 2.30.0-1 GNOME media utilities ii gnome-netstatus-applet 2.28.1-1 Network status applet for GNOME ii gnome-nettool 2.30.0-3 network information tool for GNOME ii gnome-screenshot 2.30.0-2 screenshot application for GNOME ii gnome-search-tool 2.30.0-2 GNOME tool to search files ii gnome-system-log 2.30.0-2 system log viewer for GNOME ii gnome-system-monitor 2.28.1-1 Process viewer and system resource ii gnome-system-tools 2.30.2-2 Cross-platform configuration utili ii gnome-user-share 2.30.1-1 User level public file sharing via ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.30-1 Tools for use with GStreamer ii gucharmap 1:2.30.3-1 Unicode character picker and font ii gvfs-bin 1.6.4-3 userspace virtual filesystem - bin ii hamster-applet 2.30.2-3 time tracking applet for GNOME ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-2 Perl interface to the GNOME librar ii nautilus-sendto 2.28.4-2+b1 integrates Evolution and Pidgin in ii remmina 0.8.3-1 remote desktop client for GNOME de ii seahorse 2.30.1-2 GNOME front end for GnuPG ii seahorse-plugins 2.30.1-3 seahorse plugins and utilities for ii sound-juicer 2.28.2-3 GNOME CD Ripper ii totem-plugins 2.30.2-6 Plugins for the Totem media player ii vinagre 2.30.3-1 remote desktop client for the GNOM ii vino 2.28.2-2 VNC server for GNOME ii xdg-user-dirs-gtk 0.8-1 tool to manage well known user dir ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment recommends: ii gnome-accessibility 1:2.30+7 The GNOME desktop environment -- a ii gnome-games 1:2.30.2-2 games for the GNOME desktop Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment suggests: pn gnome-dbg <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
