Do I need avahi?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 28 July 2013, lee sent:
> There are 224 packages depending on the avahi package --- that's
> insane for something that isn't needed.
> 
> Why are there so many packages depending on it? 

They might not *actually* need it.  i.e. They *may* make use of it for
some features, that you *might* use, so they require it for those
purposes.  But if you don't use those features, it doesn't need to be
running.

Want an analogy?  CUPS might be forcefully installed as a requirement,
yet I might have no printer.  Removing it would also remove a lot of
things that I actually want to keep.  But I can simply stop the service,
because it doesn't actually get used.

Stop the Avahi service.  The way Fedora is currently set up, if you
disable something, it'll start it when it needs it.  (Annoying, I know.)
You need to do something else (mask it, instead of disable it), to
prevent it being started.  Think of "disabled" services as not running
*now*.

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