Bugzilla Bug 127539

At least gnome-games-2.14 has zeroconf capability. I saw it during the compile
(the end configuration which lists what is being used). Gnome-games doesn't
have a zeroconf use flag to enable it.

because it requires howl i guess and gnomevfs has an optional dep on avahi and
those services clash.

Possible option is to dep on avahi with howl-compat enabled, not sure if it
works ?

Not sure either. I didn't know about that whole howl thing, AllanonJL told me
to report it.

well 

howl? ( x )
avahi? ( avahi )

and then check if avahi is built with howl-compat should do the trick I guess.
Also would deal with the case where people want to keep using howl with gnome
(illogical, but who knows).

Or this could need a virtual/zeroconf or something, but since implementations
are blocking and not all apps work with all libs it could prove to be messy.

Comment 2 is right. The services do crash which is why the flag was pulled from
gnome-games. Everything was supposed to switch over to avahi for gnome-2.14 but
gnome-games didn't quite get finished upstream.  I haven't tested, but using
howl-compat should work. You would probably have to patch gnome-games to use
the howl-compat pkg-config file instead of looking for the howl version. I
don't think its possible to do a virtual at this time since as foser says,
there are blockers and most applications usually just support one or two
zeroconf libraries. 

sorry, s/crash/clash

i'm closing this as WONTFIX for now unless a user specifically requests it.

we should just wait for proper avahi support since nothing else in 2.14
requires howl. ( iirc )