Bug 324993

Summary:	sci-geosciences/googleearth conflicts with net-print/cups on default install
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Flogeras <dflogeras2>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	denilsonsa
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Flogeras 2010-06-22 01:56:51 UTC

By default googleearth is set to use a system mdns (not the bundled one), which in turn pulls in nss-mdns, who pulls in avahi.  This conflicts with the default install of cups, kdelibs etc.  who still prefer mDNSResponder.  It produces itself in the way of a blocker, which is ugly.

Could this possibly be fixed by detecting if mDNSResponder is installed it prints a more user friendly message such as suggesting either using the bundled mdns, or setting up cups et al. to use avahi +mdnsresponder-compat use flag?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-28 16:31:31 UTC

Even though I disagree with the proposed solution, I am assign this to the maintainer

Comment 2 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-28 21:21:37 UTC

I don't see how googleearth could produce any messages during dependency resolution, especially when the blocker is caused by two different packages ?

Comment 3 David Flogeras 2010-06-28 22:25:38 UTC

That was just a suggestion, I wasn't being very inventive :)

For myself I can easily figure it out, I was just thinking that for a new person to Gentoo, they might very well likely want both of these packages installed, and thought maybe something could be done to avoid figuring out how to solve the dep problem.  If this is not easily achieved/priority enough, just close it, I just wanted to raise the issue.

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-02-02 12:24:48 UTC

mDNSResponder was dropped time ago