Re: [gentoo-user] Painted into a corner: avahi and mDNSResponder

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are
> blocking.  I have run emerge -e system several times.  Some other
> problems were cleared up, and this
> avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just
> keeps coming back even when solved by some skullduggery.  I've removed
> both of them at one time or another.
>
> [blocks B     ] net-dns/avahi ("net-dns/avahi" is blocking
> net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5)
>
> [blocks B     ] net-misc/mDNSResponder ("net-misc/mDNSResponder" is
> blocking net-dns/avahi-0.6.23)
>
> I guess the problem is that I am running gnome and also have two or
> three different versions/slots of kde installed.  I suppose, then,
> it's remarkable that only these blocks are showing up?
>
> Can someone lend a hand on this?  Anything I do is little more than
> blind tinkering.
>
> Alan

set the avahi useflag, unmerge mdnsresponder, emerge avahi.