Why is avahi-daemon being started?

[Connie Sieh]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:00:17PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> 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'.
>
> Fair enough. Another one would be: "When something automatic causes a
> service I don't actually need to run, exposing me to greater
> security risks, it annoys me."
>
> Or in the case of laptops "eating my battery". Or RAM, on a
> memory-constrained system. There's lots of good reasons to run less stuff.
>
>

On a server one needs a list of services that is easily predictible.  Yes
  Fedora is not a server release but it does lead to future versions of 
RHEL.

-Connie Sieh