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. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871