Do I need Avahi

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 895 Location: Germany

Hi,

on my last setup, for some reason or the other, I had avahi running, but even then didn't really know what it was doing - just got pulled in by some package as a dependency I guess.

Now I realized that on my current setup it isn't installed. I'm wondering if it is useful. For sharing files I can also use samba, so is there anything that makes Avahi/ zeroconf really necessary?
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:59 am Post subject:

I've personally kept it off of all of my systems, and as I have no real complaints thus far, I don't see any significant use for it.
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 895 Location: Germany

Yeah, thanks, that's why I was wondering. I didn't even realize it wasn't there until a package I wanted to emerge had avahi as possible useflag. Guess I'll go without it, then.
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wswartzendruber · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:24 am Post subject:

I've liked it for automatically finding PulseAudio servers without any configuration, but that's it.