how do i correct this avahi and dnsresponder block each othe

[thom_raindog]

Thank you. All of you.
In the end the problem was in front of the screen, as ever so often, since I didn't uppercase mDNSResponder correctly when trying to unmerge it..

I had to solve another block (see here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-710684-highlight-e2fsprogs.html)
and update portage (which took some masking) and right now world is updating, system already is done..

Thanks again

[Goeland86]

Just a bit of a thumbs up for getting the solution figured out.

Indeed vinagre-2.24.1 is a pain in the arse! Masked that.
Set the mdnsresponder-compat flag, avahi flag, and voila!
emerge -NDav world still complains about mDNSResponder being installed, but it doesn't stop, it will uninstall it and replace it with avahi.

Is there in depth documentation about this anywhere? It seems the default profile isn't set quite right, since it wants to pull in avahi for everything gnome-related and mDNS for the kdelibs. (trying to install kdevelop, while using lots of gnome stuff running e17!).

Anyway, cheers everyone!

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[daseinhorn]

Since I installed Compiz, this is preventing me from updating world and it is driving me nuts. Here is some console output

[monsm]

Hi,
A bit of a pain these things. Both Avahi and mDNSresponder deals with automatic network service discovery. On my home network where I have 2 machines and a router I was thinking I don't need either.
I set -avahi and -mdnsreponder in the use flags and managed to get rid of both. It worked for a while.
Avahi still was drawn back in again when I updated to Gnome 2.24. See this post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5385944.html#5385944

So for the time being, if you use Gnome, there is no choice (I didn't try to mask Vinagre though). Of course even if Avahi gets installed you don't have to run it, just remove it from the services ("rc-update del avahi" I think).

Not sure which parts of KDE depend on Avahi and/or mDNSresponder

Mons
EDIT: As daseinhorn's post above show from the equery, it seems only Vinagre hard depends on avahi (on his machine). Vinagre is a VNC client, so its probably ok to mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask). That should stop avahi. Some more "-flags" might get rid of the rest. Bonjour is another of thes services doing the same thing. Also emerge -C avahi mdnsresponder before you update world.

[daseinhorn]

Just so that I understand properly, you recommend that I mask Vinagre in portage.mask and that I clean avahi and mdnsresponder? Would unmerging gnome and installing gnome-light be an idea too? Gnome has tons of stuff I don't need, hence I would not mind cleaning part of it.

[monsm]

[daseinhorn]

Here are the results of the experiment. Still not working.

Masked

[monsm]

Hmm, ok, so Vinagre is pulled in by the gnome meta package and since avahi is hard dependent there its being pulled in.
The kdelibs one is strange. From the dependencies:

[daseinhorn]

I understand now why it was not working, there was a stupid # in front of my USE flags in /etc/make.conf. I had a shitload of stuff to recompile.