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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:30:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329211827.2556.4.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F398961.2090900@gmail.com>

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El lun, 13-02-2012 a las 16:06 -0600, Dale escribió:
> "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> > On 2/13/12 11:55 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >> El jue, 09-02-2012 a las 12:41 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> Looks like our net-misc/mDNSResponder packages are orphan and
> >>> unmaintained for a looong time, they also have some opened bugs (with
> >>> hangs, build problems...) and looks like avahi with mdns compat can
> >>> replace it.
> >>>
> >>> OK with masking it for removal? If not, is anyone willing to maintain
> >>> it?
> >>
> >> OK to start dropping it from dependencies and mask it for removal?
> > 
> > Since there was no response to the original e-mail... I second this.
> > 
> > +1 to remove the mess.
> > 
> 
> 
> I just noticed this:
> 
> kde-base/kdelibs-4.8.0-r1 (!bindist ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)

Then, bindist could be dropped from there as it's only there to allow
mDNSResponder usage over avahi.

> kde-base/krdc-4.8.0 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)

It depends on:
        zeroconf? (
                || (
                        net-dns/avahi
                        net-misc/mDNSResponder
                )
        )


> media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.11-r1 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
> net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p4 (zeroconf ? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
> 

The same

> 
> I'm assuming this is not going to break something.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-14  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 11:41 [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal Pacho Ramos
2012-02-13 10:55 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-02-13 11:06   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2012-02-13 22:06     ` Dale
2012-02-14  9:30       ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2012-02-18  8:34     ` Pacho Ramos

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