The Saturday 2005-03-05 at 17:50 -0500, 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.
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.
Don't confuse yast2-firewall package with the SuSEfirewall2 package. The first is a yast module for configurating the firewall, the second is the firewall itself - or the scripts.
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.
I would install a firewall on every single computer inside the safest of the intranets. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson