Re: Disabling avahi

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> "sudo apt-get remove --purge avahi-daemon" works for me.

The following packages will be REMOVED
  avahi-daemon* avahi-utils* gnome* libnss-mdns* telepathy-salut*
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gnome-accessibility gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office


This is part of the problem. I used to be able to to exactly what you
recommended, but as far as I can tell, alas no more. (I don't think I
care about either telepathy-salut or libnss-mdns. I do care about gnome,
although since it's a meta-package maybe I'm safe?)

Out of interest, does this tell me that nothing depends on "gnome",
and so therefore it's "safe" to remove? -

    apt-rdepends -r gnome 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    gnome

Thanks,
Chris