Do I need avahi?

[Ian Malone]

On 5 August 2013 08:29, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> My guess is that Lee probably tried to do something like "yum remove
>> avahi*" which wanted to remove both the daemon and the library, and
>> then started complaining endlessly about the daemon. He never even
>> provided the yum output that he was complaining about.
>
> No I didn't, I only tried to remove avahi.  I posted the output, and the
> message was held back for moderation because it was over 60kB.  After
> quite a while, it was denied by a moderator.
>
>> I see no further point in discussing this thread. The avahi service is
>> not a dependency on anything serious and you can safely remove it if
>> you don't want to use it.
>
> Only over 200 packages depend on it, and you take the system down when
> removing avahi.  Good to know that this is nothing serious.
>
>> If Lee still sees a dependency problem, he'd better provide the output
>> of yum demonstrating it, along with the command he used to invoke yum.
>
> The problem is still there, not only with avahi, and it is a design
> flaw, starting with yum not even supporting suggestions.
>

It's not a design flaw in yum, it's a bug in the F19 avahi package
apparently, as described by Lars Pettersson elsewhere in this thread.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913168 the solution is
fixing the avahi package, not modifying yum to ingore dependencies.

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