On 2009/06/01 23:29, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> pkg/DESCR-main
> Avahi is a free, standards-compliant implementation of the Zeroconf
> protocols Multicast DNS and DNS-SD.
> It is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network.
> This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and
> instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find
> printers to print to or find files being shared.  This kind of
> technology is already found in Apple MacOS X (branded Rendezvous,
> Bonjour and sometimes Zeroconf) and is very convenient.
> 
> The port provides 4 packages:
> avahi         - main program (compat for howl and dns_sd enabled)
> avahi-gtk     - GUI tools
> avahi-qt3     - qt3 bindings
> avahi-qt4     - qt4 bindings
> 
> Based on FreeBSD and pkgsrc.
> 
> Successfully tested by ma...@. 
> 
> This will probably get in within the next days, a bulk is running with 
> this.

these ports might pull it in if it's present at build time:

- net/ktorrent
- net/pidgin
- audio/rhythmbox

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