Why is avahi-daemon being started?

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:13:24PM -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.

AFAIK the main claim to fame in a design of systemd is that it
automatically "discovers" things and triggers, possibly annoying,
sequences of events on your computer so startup sequences do not
have to be maintained in an explicit manner.  The trouble is that
now various "optional" things convert into "obligatory" and it
appears that currently there is no good way to track or control
these.  Quite likely this is at least partially responsible for a
thorough breakage of a present telinit with systemd (cf.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627014 ).

> If something happens, I want it to
> be because I told it to happen :-).

Well, write a bug report.  OTOH computers are much better than you
in tracking complicated chains of dependencies although there is
some give-and-take in this.  You do use yum, don't you?

   Michal