On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Adam Dershowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote: > > > why are you installing avahi?it already says on their Track that > > avahi is an implimentation of mDNS. having 2 of those on the same > > machine would clearly be a problem, simply use Bonjour. The Avahi > > mac people will simply have to make their avahi damon work around > > Bonjour becasue removing bonjour will most likely break mac os > > functionality. > > > It is installed as part of a dependency chain. > I have gimp installed, which depends on librsvg, which depends on > gnome-vfs which in turn depends on avahi > > I don't really know why avahi is necessary (or if it actually is > necessary), but both avahi and Bonjour seem to be working fine, and > coexisting, on my machine. > Not sure if any of this means it has to be running, just so long as it's installed. It doesn't look like avahi has been running here and I haven't noticed anything missing. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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