On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 16:14, Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 23:47 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
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Talk about STUPID dependencies.
Not really.
Maybe not STUPID, but stupidly annoying sometimes. It would be really nice if a dependency could be flagged as *essential* or *optional*. For example, in a network with no Windows boxes, it narks me a bit to have samba installed because some networking package supports it, but would otherwise function completely without it.
Agree here, stupidly annoying is a better term.
But if I DON'T install the firewall packages I can't run the ntp client nor the http-server client.
I believe you could run them, just not configure them through their Yast modules.
You CAN run both without the firewall, or the yast firewall module installed, but yast will complain about dependencies every time you run the install/remove module.
Dylan
Actually the ntp-client module will not run, I get the following error: pc5:/var/lib/ntp # yast2 ntp-client Import 'SuSEFirewall' failed Import 'SuSEFirewall' failed No such client module ntp-client Run 'yast2 -h' for help on usage and yes the package -is- installed even though it says it isn't. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge