[pkg-kde-talk] kdnssd and avahi/libnss-mdns

[Christopher Martin]

Hello,

With avahi's arrival in Sid, the KDE team is enabling zeroconf support in 
our packages. The new KDE zeroconf-related package, kdnssd, allows users to 
browse zeroconf-accessible resources, and so should probably depend on (or 
at least Recommend/Suggest) enough packages to create a reasonable default 
zeroconf setup for users. Not being too knowledgeable about zeroconf (and 
not able to test it very well, at the moment), I was hoping you could 
advise us on what to depend/recommend/suggest for kdnssd.

kdnssd needs avahi-daemon to function at all. avahi-daemon recommends your 
libnss-mdns; presumably these two packages would be a sensible core 
zeroconf setup for kdnssd to depend on (right?). libnss-mdns recommends the 
package 'zeroconf' as well. It runs in the background, which is something 
I'd rather not have too many packages do, if they're not critical; but 
libnss-mdns does recommend it... what do you suggest?

Any other packages we should Depend/Suggest/Recommend? avahi-dnsconfd, etc.? 
Any advice would be much appreciated.

One last thing you might know about. 
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Zeroconf+in+KDE states 
that /etc/nsswitch.conf should have 'mdns' on the hosts line _before_ 
'dns'. Yet on my system, mdns comes _after_ by default (this was added due 
to bug #324954. Is this a problem?

Thanks,
Christopher Martin
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