From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NsM5C-0002ep-9Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:12:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5572BE0C1F; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12178E0C1F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:12:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so2674737bwz.29 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Kf5zuy2h/zDwq+OK8KnADf0UOH4U1wRddMFCtJhJl5Y=; b=v7NurAnCKajQ0JCs5RJaaFW98mS+beEO1YObP4+2RBEt+qQiCu0pg98CSvE84fIPjn ODWf+cQuDlTahkuV8jl2MzC+BYOpVX4ZKOahKGy/v3R6M7HpyC8qUXk5Z5zpKkhVF40m ayL3JNK+AUoXedqPIg4ZOrkzBKWC4W0Q6QoJc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=KXCaacuIRmlEQxWRdQZUBJ+rVT7NMXLuLpSxqeEni7RK43x9nAQ3rEGU/ezNkOZoiT j4e20w4SU+3LOd+s3Vankh5l1yVD3f1aJtarloWjdHEQmF1rljDRHl2d4Db9vnK7117q XwCScuH3iTx9751TZ9yPp4OKg9kDoNXdEKzL8= Received: by 10.204.48.136 with SMTP id r8mr3147895bkf.120.1268943129174; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-122.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l1sm1161501bkl.2.2010.03.18.13.12.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS and hp OfficeJet Pro Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:09:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4BA28522.409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA28522.409@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003182209.07384.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c7037314-2f4d-4a18-a46f-4dd6b5e6ae2d X-Archives-Hash: 08167db61600227a3ea618cefb699231 On Thursday 18 March 2010 21:55:14 Dale wrote: > James wrote: > > Dale gmail.com> writes: > >> [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 USE="X acl avahi dbus gnutls > >> java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -kerberos -php > >> -samba -slp -static -xinetd" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja > >> -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB > > > > I could not help but notice the avahi and zeroconf flags. I do not > > see them. Do I have to install mono-zeroconf and avahi to see those > > flags? > > > > > > Do you find them useful? What applications are using avahi/zeroconf ? > > > > > > > > curiously, > > James > > I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If > I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it > on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. > May as well be Greek. ;-) Avahi, mDNSResponder and bonjour are all apps implementing zeroconf - allowing network discovery. Say you want to find a printer on the network, then you can ask out loud and your app will "discover" them using DNS technologies without the printer admin having to tell you the name. Normally, you have to know the printer is there and either know it's name or IP to find it. These apps remove that limitation. It is also completely unlike Windows broadcasts. avahi is the Gnome app mDNSResponder was a KDE-3.5 thing built into kdelibs, with KDE-4 they have switched to using either avahi (with mDNSResponder support enabled) or mDNSResponder itself bonjour is a MacOs app zeroconf is not an app, it is a USE flag telling kde-libs to build support for this auto-discovery. It will use avahi or MDNSResponder depending on what it finds. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com