On 16.10.18 22:53, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
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> For real fun, turn on Avahi along with all the pulse audio stuff.
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> Watch your network get flooded with multi-cast audio.
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> Scramble to shut it down as fast as you can.

Errrm, devuan ascii is running both of those OOTB.

On another current thread, I've asked what might replace pulseaudio, as
it appears to suffer usability problems.

OTOH, "aptitude why avahi-daemon" merely shows:
i task-desktop Recommends avahi-daemon
so there should be no cost to purging that, I figure.

Erik