Do I need avahi?

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 16:24:43 UTC 2013


Hi


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Tethys wrote:

>
> 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.
>

You can recommend that but if a programmer has decided not to use dlopen,
package maintainers do not have any choice but to add a dependency on it.
Blaming it on packaging or Fedora is illogical.   Soft dependencies will
not help at all in this case.

Rahul
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