Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Tue Apr 13 20:07:06 UTC 2010


On Tue, 13.04.10 15:04, Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> > What does that bug report to do with the firewall and the desktop live
> > cd?
> 
> having avahi running and active by default.
> 
> if various tools dep on the lib, then a system won't end up with avahi 
> installed and running by default. The above is something of a surprise to 
> many folks running servers.
> 
> the comment from JH is the admin/manager of kernel.org who was a bit 
> frustrated by avahi running as a service.

Right. And what does that have to do with the firewall of the desktop
live cd?

I mean, i am not opposed to introducing a seperate package for the avahi
libs, but i wonder what that has to do with the firewall of the desktop
live cd?

And mentioning an admin's tale about a server is not really to the point is
it?

Lennart

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