Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?
On 23/05/2013 22:15, David Guntner wrote:
> (I'm on the list, so replying back to the list is probably best.)
>
> theartloy@zoho.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Check it 'deborphan', in the archive. It does a reverse
>> dependency lookup on a package, similar to apt-cache's depends
>> and rdepends commands, but only shows installed packages.
>>
>> So to see all the packages you have installed that depend on
>> avahi, run: deborphan -a avahi-daemon or to see the packages
>> that depend on or 'recommend' avahi, run: deborphan -an
>> avahi-daemon
>
> Thanks; good to know about that one, but that's not quite what I'm
> looking for. I'm hoping that someone on the list knows if it's
> something that's really needed. I already know there are packages
> set as dependent on it since it tells me all about that when I try
> to purge the package. :-)
>
> --Dave
>
Hi, if you don't use it (have no use for mdns/zeroconf stuff on your
network) you can do without, I sure do. Few packages actually depend
on it, most often it's a "suggest" or "recommend". If a metapackage
depends on it (like Gnome) you can always get rid of the metapackage,
it won't remove the whole Gnome desktop environment.
My 2 cents.
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