[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#595330: I couldn't remove avahi-daemon without removing the gnome-desktop-environment

[Dominique Brazziel]

The root cause of the problem is effed up '/etc/nsswitch.conf' 
after installation of package 'libnss-mdns'.  See 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412714

I agree that
the entire avahi thing is retarded, but it keeps coming back
on upgrades like the undead.  I used this workaround to 
restore performance of iptables -L to an acceptable level:

In '/etc/nsswitch.conf':

#hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns

Could probably delete references to mdns(4) altogether and
just go with 'files dns' for best performance but YMMV 
depending on whether avahi actually works at all with
a particular network setup.