is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of

[paul beard]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Adam Dershowitz <dersh at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote:
>
> > why are you installing avahi?it already says on their Track that
> > avahi is an implimentation of mDNS. having 2 of those on the same
> > machine would clearly be a problem, simply use Bonjour. The Avahi
> > mac people will simply have to make their avahi damon work around
> > Bonjour becasue removing bonjour will most likely break mac os
> > functionality.
>
>
> It is installed as part of a dependency chain.
> I have gimp installed, which depends on librsvg, which depends on
> gnome-vfs which in turn depends on avahi
>
> I don't really know why avahi is necessary (or if it actually is
> necessary), but both avahi and Bonjour seem to be working fine, and
> coexisting, on my machine.
>

Not sure if any of this means it has to be running, just so long as it's
installed. It doesn't look like avahi has been running here and I haven't
noticed anything missing.

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