Do I need avahi?

[Tethys]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

>>         yum --optional-deps install foo
>
> I'm not entirely clear from your email whether or not you understand
> why most dependencies exist. If a linked library is not present the
> program will not run, regardless of whether you need the functionality
> provided by the library or not.

Yes, I understand that. The problem is the fact that it's linked in
the first place. Unnecessary shared libraries should be dlopen()ed if
necessary, not linked directly.

Tet

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