Hi everyone, 

first of all, I'm not really an expert in this stuff, so feel free to tell me 
about any mis-assumptions...

As far as I can see, we have two global useflags:
avahi - Add avahi/Zeroconf support
zeroconf - Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD)

"Zeroconf" describes a service autodiscovery and autoconfiguration standard, 
see [1]. Avahi is the implementation of that standard which we have in the 
portage tree [2]. Other implementations are mDNSResponder (which was in the 
tree some time ago but got kicked out) and Apple's Bonjour (which never was in 
the tree and probably never will be).

I would like to suggest unifying use-flag usage, and use "zeroconf" anywhere.

Opinions?

Cheers, 
Andreas


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
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http://www.akhuettel.de/

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