Bug#409513: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#409513: ifup and ifdown slow becouse of avahi-deamon script

[Reinhard Tartler]

sjoerd at spring.luon.net (Sjoerd Simons) writes:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:48:08PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> writes:
>> > This check is done at IP up time because this is in no way a once-off
>> > check, it could vary from network to network
>> 
>> Err, yes, there are broken networks in use out there. Is it really the
>> job of random packages to check for random breakage?
>
> Not of random packages. Only of the packages related to it :)

After a fresh installation of Debian, it was very unobvious that avahi
is the culprit for the boot delay. From the users POV, this was some
random breakage in some random package. (This bug is actually a bug
forward from a user I'm supporting).

> But well, yeah we must do this unfortunately. There are too many
> broken networks out there and we shouldn't break them..

Annoying delays at boot time punishes users who have a non-broken
network.

> Remember people will accuse Debian for being broken,
> not their precious network!

I notice that people accuse Debian right now for being broken by having
a 3 sec penalty delay with using avahi.

Don't get me wrong, I personally enjoy using avahi. This particular
check however is pretty annoying.

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