Re: New Etch install - IP address question
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500
> Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
>>Hi Andrei,
>>it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the
>>answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little
>>about zeroconf but it seems to me that it would be better to _not_
>>have it installed and allow those folks who need it to install it
>>then to have newbies not have proper networking when they finish an
>>install. Opinions?
>>cheers,
>>Kev
>
>
> avahi-daemon recommends libnss-mdns
> libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf
>
> The link is pretty weak, but it still gets installed on a lot of
> systems, because aptitude installs recommends by default. Maybe it
> (zeroconf) should be installed disabled?
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
In my case it was dselect that pulled it in, since that also installs
recommends by default. Installing it disabled would be OK, or changing
it to suggests....I'm not sure how important zeroconf is for the overall
user base.
Tom
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