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
