On Fri 12 Sep 2014 at 00:59:27 +0400, Reco wrote: > 2) libnss-myhostname > I honestly don't know what scares me most about libnss-hostname - the > need of it in the first place, the author of the library, software that > behaves funny without it or the setups that genuinely need it :(
People are usually frightened most by things they have no understanding of. If the local hostname is always resolvable by a 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts or the machine is unlikely to dynamically change its hostname libnss-myhostname probably can be purged. > 3) avahi-daemon > Uses funny IPs from 169.254.0.0/16 range and (in)famous .local domain. > Not needed if you have DNS in your LAN. Needed with cups to discover and advertise print queues on a network. > No, please read the output of 'apt-cache show libnss-myhostname'. It'll > explain this 'myhostname' thing to you better that I can. That wouldn't be hard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140911220325.gr4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
