Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

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.
> I -don't- need a firewall to run on this machine, I have a firewall on
> another machine. Talk about STUPID dependencies. 
Not really.
> 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.
> 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.
>  
Yast is only for configuration, not for running.  HTH.
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Joe Morris
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