Re: CUPS and AVAHI (bloatware)

Hi,

gwes wrote on Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 01:43:03AM -0400:

> The last time AVAHI got installed on one of my systems
> the installer started it immediately.
> Avahi then proceeded to scribble on that system's
> network configuration and confuse other systems on
> that subnet.

That doesn't sound like OpenBSD at all.
Did that happen to you on a Debian system?

schwarze@isnote $ pkg_info | grep avahi
avahi-0.7p0 framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery
schwarze@isnote $ ps axu | grep avahi
schwarze 45428 0.0 0.0 312 1372 pd S+p 1:37PM 0:00.00 grep avahi
schwarze@isnote $ grep avahi /etc/rc.conf.local
schwarze@isnote $ grep avahi /usr/ports/print/cups/pkg/cupsd.rc
schwarze@isnote $

So i have avahi installed, i did not change its configuration,
and it is not running. Even the cups start script does not appear
to automatically enable it.

I think what you are asking for is already the case.

If you think there is a bug, you need to be more specific.

Yours,
Ingo