Do I need any part of Avahi at all?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 08:42:32PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 28 Sep 2020 at 20:08:01 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > Why get so defensive?  In general if something really isn't needed and
> > it's a daemon or something else that runs without me asking then I
> > like to be rid of it.
> 
> Defensive? I imagined that you and other users would appreciate some
> explanation. Should the explanatiom be thought to be lacking it should
> be corrected or ammended. That's the way things work.
> 
> Instead we get some woolly response based on something quite general.
> 
> > The issues I have had in the past *may or may not* be anything to to
> > with avahi and zeroconf but they certainly are down in the DNS and
> > DHCP areas of how things work so one less variable to chase after when
> > things go awry is a 'good thing' IMHO.
> 
> Basically, you don't know what is going on. I wouldn't have put you
> down as one on Rober Heller's "totally clueless users".
> 
Well thank you for the compliment!

So we should fill our systems with running processes that do things
that aren't needed?

I really don't think it's worth bothering with this any more, if
you're just going to be rude and not add any further information to
the discussion then we may as well end it here.

-- 
Chris Green