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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:31:31 +0100

> The combination that avahi uses makes no sense.
> 
> I've been auditing user-space tools that may have problems with this change:
> 
> * iw (it uses libnl)
> * acpid (it uses a mangled version of libnetlink shipped in iproute)
> * tstime, for taskstats, it uses libnl
> * wimax-tools, it uses libnl
> * quota-tools, it uses libnl
> * keepalived, no libs used
> 
> Well, I can keep looking for more, but I think that avahi is the only
> one doing this incorrectly.
> 
> Please, fix avahi instead.

That's a pretty compelling argument, so I'll hold off on the revert
for now.