I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. :-)
A question that I've been pondering for a while now: Is the
avahi-daemon *really* needed? All it seems to do is spew the occasional
message to my syslog, and based on what I've read about what it does, it
doesn't really seem like something I need for my particular setup.
However, any attempt to do an aptitude purge of it results in a warning
message that doing so makes it want to remove Gnome among other things,
which it says is dependent upon it.
I don't actually use Gnome (I'm a KDE guy, myself), but I don't mind
having it in the system, and some of the tools I use seem to expect
Gnome to be there. And again, from what I read of the purpose for
avahi-daemon, I'm not sure why Gnome specifically wants it to be
present. Seems more like a "it can use it if it's available" type of
thing, but maybe I'm misreading it.
So, is avahi-daemon truly essential for the system? If not, is there a
way to remove it without removing other things such as Gnome?
--Dave
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