Why is Avahi installed?

[dr_techno (Dave Mikeska)]

I am looking at different things that are installed in ipfire, one particular module that I see isn’t really nessisary for a routerOS and that is Avahi.

So why is Avahi installed and what purpose does it really have in ipfire?

[tphz (iptom)]

@dr_techno

routerOS

What do you mean when you write routerOS?

Avahi is not an add-on installed by default on a new IPFire installation.

Do you have read the following pages?

avahi

Problem removing "avahi" via PAKFIRE

That looks like you have samba installed and that requires avahi to be installed. Avahi is also a dependency if you have cups installed for printing. Leave it in place.

Regards

[dr_techno (Dave Mikeska)]

@tphz

What do you mean when you write routerOS?

This is an os for the intention of using the computer as a router.

Cups isn’t required unless the printer doesn’t have a print imaging driver, which the ones that fully support Linux do. Since I use HP printers, I use HPLIP instead of cups on my Linux computers.

Avahi is not needed for Samba. The only networking module that is used in Samba is dbus to mount the network file system. Netbios is depreciated, and since there is already an instance of bind9, you would use that instead and configure it in the hostnames.

I was looking at the stuff you can install, and I would remove all three from the distribution, but yes, I wouldn’t install them on the ipfire instance.