On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Thanks for the reply.
Ken Schneider wrote:
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.
These YAST modules interface to the firewall module to open up the correct ports in the firewall for their respective needs, thus the dependency.
Whoopee! A simple note on the left panel of the config screen can't do that!
I -don't- need a firewall to run on this machine, I have a firewall on another machine. Talk about STUPID dependencies. Not really.
Yes really. Forced to install a package because it wants to open a port in a firewall that isn't needed IS stupid when all you want is the ability to use the config program to config the program. YES STUPID!
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.
No! they will not run without the firewall stuff installed.
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.
Meant client config program not the daemon.
Yast is only for configuration, not for running. HTH. -- Joe Morris
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