Cant Update Avahi , mDNSResponder is blocking

[billydv]

Heres what I get when I do an update world,

Linux1 billydv # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] dev-db/unixODBC-2.2.12 [2.2.11-r1] USE="gnome%*"
[ebuild U ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.19-r1 [0.6.16-r1] USE="-test%"
[blocks B ] net-misc/mDNSResponder (is blocking net-dns/avahi-0.6.19-r1)


but when I do an equery d, I see that mDNSResponder is a required package for kdelibs and ksysguard so I cant remove it


Linux1 billydv # equery d mDNSResponder
[ Searching for packages depending on mDNSResponder... ]
kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r10 (zeroconf & !avahi? net-misc/mDNSResponder)
kde-base/ksysguard-3.5.5 (zeroconf? net-misc/mDNSResponder)



How do I fix this?
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Billy DeVincentis

[didymos]

Then you need to set the avahi USE flag for kdelibs so that it no longer needs mDNSResponder, and disable zerconf for ksysguard. That's about the only way to do it, other than upgrading KDE, since later versions of ksysguard no longer have that dependency (3.5.6-r1 and 3.5.7. 3.5.6 still has it).
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Thomas S. Howard

[termite]

I can confirm that didymos's solution works. Make sure you do