avahi and howl

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:39 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 10/13/05, Trever L. Adams <tadams-lists at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > Is this something that RedHat/Fedora should follow Debian/Gaim on?
> 
> As soon as programs in Core require it I'm sure that its going to get
> sucked in to Core.
> 
> The more important question is... now that gaim is going to use
> avahi... what else in Fedora Core requires howl..and can those other
> items be made to use avahi as well?
> It would be best if howl could be replaced completely in Core with
> avahi to avoid duplication of functionality with multuple
> implementations.
> 
> rawhide>repoquery --whatrequires libhowl.so.0
> gnome-games-1:2.12.1-1.i386  in Core
> gnomemeeting-0:1.2.2-2.i386  in Core
> gnome-vfs2-0:2.12.1.1-1.i386 in Core
> obby-0:0.2.0-5.fc5.i386 in Extras

I'll try to find some time to port gnome-vfs2. I think it makes sense to
switch to Avahi.

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