Can anyone explain the following:
yast2-firewall is needed by (installed) yast2-http-server-
2.9.20-5
yast2-firewall is needed by (installed) yast2-ntp-client- 2.9.10-14
when trying to uninstall yast2-firewall.
I -don't- need a firewall to run on this machine, I have a firewall on another machine. Talk about STUPID dependencies. But if I DON'T install the firewall packages I can't run the ntp client nor the http-server client.
I don't understand the need for a firewall to be installed to run an ntp client or the http-server config program in yast.
Utter stupidity as far as I am concerned.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Ken: I agree. I also experienced that SuSE has plenty of - at least according to my opinion - unnecessary dependencies. This makes an update very difficult in some cases. A package should be dependent on another only if the dependency absolutely necessary for working the package well. It seems in SUSE it is not always the case. IG