Why is avahi-daemon being started?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Sep 8 11:00:17 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 12:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:39:55 +0200
> drago01 wrote:
> 
> > > finally squash avahi-daemon :-).  
> > 
> > What did it ever do to you?
> 
> I utterly despise all "helpful" software that automatically
> "discovers" things and triggers annoying sequences of
> events on my computer. If something happens, I want it to
> be because I told it to happen :-).

You still create your own device nodes, then?

Not to get too far into a philosophical cul-de-sac, but when people say
this, they usually don't *really* mean it. What they mean is 'when
something automatic doing a job I don't currently appreciate impinges on
my attention, it annoys me'.
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