On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 11:11:11 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 05:13:48 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 09:56:39 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > Second, contrary to the popular thinking here, the world does not > > > start and does not end with GNOME and x86 along with the CUPS > > > installed. And while avahi enhances CUPS' usability indeed, it has > > > little usefulness otherwise. > > > > The enhancements it brings to the printing system are sufficient to > > more than justify its place on a user's machine. > > > That is a very poorly demonstrated fact at this site. Since before
The thousands of well-administered sites probably have a different story to relate. Most are aware that a user encountering a problem often lashes out the nearest target without much thought to looking at his own motes. The claim that purging avahi-daemon removes the nsswitch.conf file is likely to raise an eyebrow or two at the very least. -- Brian.