Do I need any part of Avahi at all?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 03:25:32PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 28.09.2020, 12:35 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> > I run several [x]ubuntu systems on a small home LAN.  There is a
> > separate Raspberry Pi system running dnsmasq to provide local DNS and
> > DHCP.
> > 
> > Therefore I don't think I need any part of Avahi, am I right?  Can I
> > simply uninstall it all?  There's avahi-autoipd, avahi-daemon and
> > avahi-utils plus some libraries.
> > 
> all newer "driverless" printers (or rather cups itself) do hard-depend
> on avahi features. if you plan to use any such printer in your network
> without a lot of manual tinkering with cups and drivers you probably
> want to keep it around (though i think installing cups will pull it in
> via a dependenc anyway) ... otherwise avahi is just for convenience
> 
Yes (OP here) cups and some other stuff seem to depend on the avahi
libararies but one can remove avahi-autoipd, avahi-daemon and
avahi-utils without any other things going with them.

So I think I will get rid of them as I have had occasional issues with
them.

-- 
Chris Green