Do I need avahi?

[lee]

Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:58:24 +0200
> lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> writes:
>> 
>> > But my real query is whether avahi (or zeroconf)
>> > could actually offer me anything useful.
>> 
>> Hmm I disabled it now and will see what happens.  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?
>
> Not on my system (F18/64bit/KDE), there are only 22 of them depending
> on avahi, and most of them are just wine-related. If I didn't need wine
> or nss-mdns, I could remove it no problem:
>
> So it's just nss-mdns and wine & friends.

It would even remove imagemagick, emacs, vlc, ddd, fvwm, the NVIDIA
drivers and a lot of other packages I need.

> OTOH, if you are running, say, Gnome3 or such, then you should ask the
> relevant developers on the relevant mailing list why oh why do they
> depend on avahi so much. ;-)

I don't --- I could ask on the fvwm mailing list if fvwm needs avahi,
and I bet it doesn't.

Perhaps yum has messed up the dependencies?


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