removing netcat

Does anyone remove netcat from their environment? Our security team likes to have netcat removed from SLES 9, however, the yast2 rpm depends on netcat. I am interested to know what functionalities I may lose in administrating the systems. I understand I will not be able to use yast, but I think I can manually update the config files, and do most of everything in command line, right? Thank you. RBW ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs