On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 08:36:38 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But that begs another question Greg. If it hasn't anything to do with > > > avahi-daemon, whyinhell did purging avahi-daemon take the libnsswitch > > > package with it? > > > I'm puzzled too. Can you tell us which package you're talking about as > > I can only find: > > > > Package lib32nss-mdns > > Package libnss3 > [snip] > > I'm pretty sure Gene means this one: > > wooledg:~$ apt-cache show avahi-daemon | grep libnss > Recommends: libnss-mdns > > As I demonstrated somewhere else in this thread,[1] removing avahi-daemon > also removes libnss-mdns, and installing avahi-daemon also installs > libnss-mdns, at least when using apt with whatever settings I'm currently > using. Which are probably pretty close to the defaults. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg00258.html
Yes, thanks for that; posting saves others from having to test what's going on. I guess we should hardly be surprised. So the Debian system that's allegedly completely broken (and has been "nuked" into who knows what shape) turns out to be not a Debian system at all. Such a waste of time. Cheers, David.