On 07/31/2013 05:15 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
You are confusing the avahi library with the avahi daemon. The daemon
doesn't need to run or even be installed for things to work. The
library, however, is a dependency of a large number of packages, and is
needed by the majority of the system, like glibc is.
Of course, you can remove the daemon while keeping the library (the
daemon depends on the library, but not the other way around), so there
should be no problems removing the avahi service itself.
Will not work:
# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon
avahi-0.6.31-11.fc19.x86_64
# yum erase avahi
...
Remove 1 Package (+310 Dependent packages)
Installed size: 1.6 G
Is this ok [y/N]:
This on a rather newly installed system. Installed as Fedora 18 in June,
and then updated to 19 when that came along.
My guess is that Lee probably tried to do something like "yum remove
avahi*" which wanted to remove both the daemon and the library, and
then started complaining endlessly about the daemon. He never even
provided the yum output that he was complaining about.
From session above:
Removing:
avahi x86_64 0.6.31-11.fc19
installed 1.0 M
Removing for dependencies:
...
avahi-autoipd x86_64 0.6.31-11.fc19
installed 41 k
avahi-glib x86_64 0.6.31-11.fc19
installed 15 k
avahi-gobject x86_64 0.6.31-11.fc19
installed 48 k
avahi-libs x86_64 0.6.31-11.fc19
installed 121 k
avahi-ui-gtk3 x86_64 0.6.31-11.fc19
installed 53 k
I see no further point in discussing this thread. The avahi service is
not a dependency on anything serious and you can safely remove it if
you don't want to use it.
No, you can not remove it (the avahi-daemon package named avahi) with
yum due to dependencies.
Perhaps /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon and associated files should be moved to
an avahi-daemon package?
Lars
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