systemd discussion

JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 22:38:38 UTC 2011


Tom Horsley <horsley1953 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ...

I am going easy about systemd.
I am not sure it is going to survive as is ... 

Just a small example.
# yum info avahi
...
Description : Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on
            : a local network -- this means that you can plug your laptop or
            : computer into a network and instantly be able to view other
            : people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find
            : files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in
            : MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes
            : 'ZeroConf') and is very convenient.
...

I used to remove avahi package from my systems prior to F15 - no need for
"zeroconf" here. And I could do it, if I remember it.

With F15, try it:
# yum remove avahi
...
===============================================================================
 Package          Arch   Version            Repository                    Size
===============================================================================
Removing:
 avahi            i686   0.6.30-3.fc15      @koji-override-1/$releasever 997 k
Removing for dependencies:
 avahi-compat-libdns_sd
                  i686   0.6.30-3.fc15      @koji-override-1/$releasever  30 k
 avahi-glib       i686   0.6.30-3.fc15      @koji-override-1/$releasever  10 k
 gigolo           i686   0.4.1-2.fc15       @koji-override-0/$releasever 546 k
 gnome-vfs2       i686   2.24.4-5.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever 3.3 M
 gnomebaker       i686   0.6.4-10.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever 2.0 M
 gvfs             i686   1.8.2-1.fc15       @updates                     5.1 M
 libbonoboui      i686   2.24.5-1.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever 1.2 M
 libfm-gtk        i686   0.1.15-5.D20110427gita1f63c3114.fc15
                                            @koji-override-0/$releasever 331 k
 libgnome         i686   2.32.1-2.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever 2.9 M
 libgnomeui       i686   2.24.5-2.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever 3.5 M
 libpurple        i686   2.7.11-2.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever  27 M
 lxde-common      noarch 0.5.5-0.2.20110328git87c368d7.fc15
                                            @koji-override-0/$releasever 919 k
 lxmusic          i686   0.4.4-4.fc15       @koji-override-0/$releasever 384 k
 pcmanfm          i686   0.9.9-5.D20110422git3f899d14eb.fc15
                                            @koji-override-0/$releasever 665 k
 pidgin           i686   2.7.11-2.fc15      @koji-override-0/$releasever 2.9 M
 xmms2            i686   0.7-8.fc15         @koji-override-0/$releasever 2.5 M

Transaction Summary
===============================================================================
Remove       17 Package(s)

Installed size: 54 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n

Why ?
May I add that avahi is a brain child of the same dev Lennart Poettering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)

JB




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