Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

[Thomas Woerner]

On 04/13/2010 10:38 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:11 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps I misread the original comment - but it was the suggestion of
>> having avahi running by default.
>>
>> Do you mean having that be the case from the livecd or from the package
>> itself.
>>
>> If the former, then you're right it's a side issue. I thought the latter
>> was being discussed which is why I brought up that report.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>
>> -sv
>>
>
> I think both are being discussed somewhat.  It'd be nice to do it
> everywhere, so that the regular install does match somewhat the livecd
> case, but as a fallback, just doing it on the livecd is less
> contentious.  I'd certainly like to see it on the livecd, and then I'd
> also like to see us work toward having it on regular installs too, in a
> way that will keep most parties happy.
>
I think it would be good to get more people aware of this discussion. 
Maybe a good starting point would be fedora-devel-list. This topic is 
too important for all users to be discussed in the desktop list, only.