Why is avahi-daemon being started?

[Bill Nottingham]

Nataraj (incoming-fedora-list at rjl.com) said: 
> I'm inclined to agree with Tom here.  While I wouldn't choose the the 
> word despise, I have found the avahi-daemon to be annoying, including 
> the fact that in current releases of Redhat, if I use chkconfig to 
> disable it, updates turn it back on again

That sounds like you're disabling it wrong.  (At least in terms of pre-systemd
versions).

chkconfig ... off, not chkconfig --del ...

Bill