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soften the dependency on avahi-daemon
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regarding avahi-utils: please soften the dependency on avahi-daemon
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Package: avahi-utils
Version: 0.6.31-4+b1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I wanted to get a list of all mDNS services in my local network. Thus I
installed avahi-utils and everything worked fine. But much later I
discovered that I had a new service running in the background of my
system: avahi-daemon. It must've been installed together with
avahi-utils as avahi-utils depends on avahi-daemon. I stopped the
avahi-daemon process and can confirm that avahi-browse works just fine
without the avahi-daemon running. Thus I think it is unnecessary to
force a new service being installed when avahi-utils is installed. I see
several ways to solve this problem:
avahi-daemon could move from a Depends to a Recommends of avahi-utils
because obviously the daemon is not needed for some functionality the
package avahi-utils provides
The avahi-browse program could be split into a separate package which
does not Depend on avahi-daemon (in case other software in avahi-utils
has a hard requirement of avahi-daemon).
What do you think?
cheers, josch
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Am 02.04.2015 um 13:28 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 15.11.2014 um 10:09 schrieb Johannes Schauer:
>> avahi-utils as avahi-utils depends on avahi-daemon. I stopped the
>> avahi-daemon process and can confirm that avahi-browse works just fine
>> without the avahi-daemon running.
>
> Are you sure? Keep in mind, that avahi-daemon.service can be
> auto-activated via D-Bus or avahi-daemon.socket.
>
> You'll need to mask the avahi-daemon.service to be absolutely sure it's
> not activated.
> $ systemctl mask avahi-daemon.service
> $ systemctl stop avahi-daemon.socket avahi-daemon.service
> $ avahi-browse --all
> Failed to create client object: Daemon not running
>
I just the various with a stopped avahi-daemon and they were all
non-functional. Therefor I think, relaxing the dependency to Recommends
is not warranted, thus closing the bug report.
Regards,
Michael
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