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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447101


           Summary: libavahi-common3 should not depend on avahi
           Product: openSUSE 11.1
           Version: Beta 4
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: sbrabec@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
                CC: pgajdos@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


There is a lot of users, that want to use GNOME and don't want mDNS (e. g.
users of AD .local domain).

They may want to install GNOME without avahi and .local domain resolving. The
simplest way to do it: remove nss-mdns. It is not possible, as whole GNOME
depends on it:

GNOME is linked with libavahi-common3. libavahi-common3 does not anything
useful without avahi, and avahi strongly recommends nss-mdns. It break AD
local domain lookup.

I propose to remove dependency of libavahi-common3 on avahi. Application will
be linked against the library. People, who want mDNS support will install avahi
and GNOME will start to support mDNS .local domain.

The change itself is trivial, but may have a big impact on default package
selection.

Related: bug 446017, bug 329035, bug 267222


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