There are a lot of useflags around Apple's "Bonjour" (formerly "Rendezvous") technology: avahi zeroconf bonjour howl howl-compat Let's see, how we could merge them together: Packages affected by "avahi": Local Flag: Build with avahi support (net-misc/vino) Local Flag: Support for avahi mdns daemon (gnome-base/gnome-vfs) Local Flag: Support for avahi mdns daemon (media-video/vlc) Local Flag: Support for the avahi mdns daemon (net-im/ekiga) Local Flag: Use avahi instead of howl as mdns daemon (media-sound/mt-daapd) Local Flag: enable support for Avahi (sys-auth/nss-mdns) Local Flag: support for avahi mdns daemon (media-sound/rhythmbox) Packages affected by "zeroconf": Local Flag: Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD). (kde-base/kdebase) Local Flag: Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD). (kde-base/kdelibs) Local Flag: Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD). (kde-base/ksysguard) Packages affected by "bonjour": Local Flag: Enable bonjour support (net-im/gaim) Packages affected by "howl": Enable howl support, enables DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) gnome-base/gnome-vfs gnome-extra/gnome-games media-sound/mt-daapd media-sound/rhythmbox net-im/gnomemeeting net-libs/obby I think all "avahi", "zeroconf" and "howl" affected ebuilds could be converted to use the "bonjour" USE-flag, because "bonjour" stands for the whole technology. Ebuilds supporting both (howl and avahi) should use avahi as default, as howl is deprececated in favor of avahi ( http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/ ). Ebuilds only supporting howl should be reported upstream (maybe the developer was just lazy and didn't want to do an rewrite, using avahi? ;-) ). Maybe, one day we won't have to use the "howl-compat" USE-flag for avahi. Will start tomorrow submitting updated ebuilds.
Uhm... I'd suggest to take this suggestion to gentoo-dev mailing list for discussion... Also, "bonjour" is IMHO the worst choice here, noone will have an idea what's that about.
*** Bug 134963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"Bonjour" is a trademark of Apple as well.
(In reply to comment #3) > "Bonjour" is a trademark of Apple as well. Shrug... They might as well register "Good morning", not really the point of this bug :=) "Bonjour" IMHO sucks (as does "Rendezvous") as use flag, completely undescriptive for people not familiar with the thing. Not much better w/ avahi vs. howl; so - what's wrong w/ zeroconf? Well anyway, please take this to the mailing list, bugzilla sucks for longer discussions.
