It's certainly expected that if I install the avahi-daemon package that
it would run and listen.
It's particularly annoying for upgrades. It's always the one manual fix
I forget when doing a dapper-edgy update (that is, to turn avahi on).
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It would be sensitive and nice to have Avahi turned on
A "zero-open-port" policy is generally a good thing, but Avahi/MDNS
services are beginning to be *expected* by users. I fully expected Avahi
to be on by default in Edgy for workstation installations.
Case in point - I impressed a couple of Mac users by showing them that
my Ubuntu installation's Rh