477620 – Add a warning to prevent "avahi" USE flag usage in favor of "zeroconf"

Bug 477620 - Add a warning to prevent "avahi" USE flag usage in favor of "zeroconf"

Summary: Add a warning to prevent "avahi" USE flag usage in favor of "zeroconf"

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Repoman (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Depends on:	671906 671908 671910 671912 671914 671916 683224
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Reported:	2013-07-21 11:16 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2020-04-03 18:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-07-21 11:16:08 UTC

It's summarized at:
http://us.generation-nt.com/gentoo-dev-global-useflags-zeroconf-avahi-help-210879022.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg31489.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg31502.html

the idea is to drop "avahi" from global in the future as it should only be used in corner cases... but that cannot be done currently as there are still a lot of packages to migrate :S

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2020-04-03 18:40:04 UTC

I see no IUSE=avahi remaining.