Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 20:09:39 Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Jan Ritzerfeld
>
> > You can't eat your cake and have it too! Banshee (or one of its
> > extensions) obviously makes use of zeroconf (the daap plugin: iTunes
> > sharing) and you want to remove its provider: avahi
>
> In my case, I don't use Banshee nor do I use iTunes.  However, since I
> also don't use 11.0, I'm stuck with avahi.  Further, I have found that
> iTunes in Windows works just fine without the Bonjour service.

Sure, multicast dns - or zeroconf in general - isn't something that makes 
things work. It's something that makes things work without configuration. The 
whole idea of zeroconf is that "normal people" can just plug in their 
machines, and have more or less everything work, including networking, 
automatic discovery of file shares etc.

For example, if I block or disable avahi, my PS3 system doesn't find my file 
share where I store movies for it

But I agree that even banshee/mono shouldn't have a hard dependency on it

Anders
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