thanks and a q. re avahi

[Derek Broughton]

Steve Flynn wrote:

> On 01/08/07, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Why is avahi so deeply embedded in everything?
>>
> 
> Because it provides a service which pretty much everything else can take
> advantage of.

"Can" is the operative word.  They shouldn't have to, and they should behave
properly without it.  In fact, as noted in my response to Karl, KMail and
Konqueror behave _better_ without it.

At the absolute least, it should be easily possible to turn off zeroconf
without messing with avahi.  While Kubuntu has an option that supposedly
turns off zeroconf, it doesn't seem to do a complete job.
-- 
derek