[aur-general] mDNSResponder on Blacklist

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:53:44PM -0400, SJ_UnderWater wrote:
> 	I recently tried to submit a package for mDNSResponder to AUR and it was rejected, saying that mDNSResponder is on the blacklist, but after some searching, I wasn't able to find any reference to it in the repositories or the blacklist reason. I realize that avahi provides the same functionality, but I'm willing to support MDNSR and it has become an optional dependency for Netatalk's newest alpha, so I would like to be able to link against it.
> 	The open-source package itself isn't the best-supported by Apple, but with a little work it's perfectly usable and provides the "official" solution; the IETF has asked Apple to submit mDNS as a standards track RFC [http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt]. The fact that it's lightweight (184KiB, no deps) doesn't hurt either.
> 	See the PKGBUILD at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1088978

Hi,

mdnsresponder is a provide/conflict/replace of avahi, which is why
you're being blocked from uploading it from the AUR. Whether or not
that's intended is another story.