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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:55:11 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        Willy Picard <picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Conflict between avahi and howl/mDNSResponder
Message-ID:  <966BB28D-B69A-410E-9A65-CC8652A7CD20@brooknet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20060706111154.GB1282@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl>
References:  <20060706111154.GB1282@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl>

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On 06/07/2006, at 9:11 PM, Willy Picard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently, avahi conflicts with howl/mDNSResponder. As a user of  
> KDE, I have
> plenty of applications that depend on mDNSResponder. But at the  
> same time, I am
> a user of OpenOffice.org, Firefox, eclipse and many others that  
> depend on avahi
> (mainly because of gnome-vfs). The current conflict has the following
> consequence: I cannot update the applications that depend on avahi  
> because avahi
> cannot be updated. Therefore, my question is the following: what  
> should I do to
> have Firefox, OpenOffice.org and the like updated? Should I delete  
> avahi and
> force a dependence of these applications with howl/mDNSResponder?  
> Should I wait
> till Gnome and KDE find an agreement on this conflict :) ?

This has been raised a number of times, check the archives.




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