Too many rygel ports

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Sometimes I see many rygel entries on the firewall utility and I'm thinking if it's really worth letting it.

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I read that it's used to discover and interact with media devices in the home network so since I never used those devices I don't think that I really need it. The only way I share stuff is by USB cable with my Android phones. I need to know if this service is useful even for something that I'm currently not aware of and to prevent the service from opening or closing ports on the firewall for no reason.

luca@Asus:~$ sudo apt remove rygel
[sudo] password for luca:     
Reading list of packages... Done
Generating dependency tree... Done
Reading status information... Done   
The following packages were installed automatically and are no longer required:
  libdrm-nouveau2:i386 librygel-core-2.6-2 librygel-db-2.6-2
  librygel-renderer-2.6-2 librygel-server-2.6-2
Use “sudo apt autoremove” to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  rygel
0 updated, 0 installed, 1 to be removed and 2 not updated.
After this operation, 1,487 kB of disk space will be freed.
Continue? [Y/n]

Note: I asked to Google Gemini about the safety of removing those 5 packages and it replied it was safe, then I pointed out that I was doubtful about libdrm-nouveau2:i386 and it specified that it's for NVIDIA drivers. I don't know why AMD users get NVIDIA stuff in their downloads.

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Intel and Nvidia users get the AMD drivers, too. It's baked into the kernel.
The majority of the time, all potentially needed files are included for the broadest range of users.
Printer drivers, wifi drivers and all manner of other redundant things... They do not take up very much space at all and general users would be less happy about having to hunt down the files and drivers they need in a usy-by-use basis.

All those files are completely safe to remove.

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