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Re: avahi-daemon - unrequired?



On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:51:39 +0000
michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:

Hello michael,

> but I'm unsure what 'avahi-daemon' is needed for... anybody care to
> illuminate me? or can I just uninstall it?

It's used for DNS service discovery.  If you're on a local network,
using a networked, rather than local, printer or something similar, you
probably want to keep avahi installed.

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