Dne čtvrtek 12 duben 2007 07:22 Marcus Meissner napsal(a):
Hi,
We had yet another complaint that a customer does not want to install "netcat" for security reasons (no need to discuss), but we cannot even tell him to rpm -e it to quieten his paranoia because it is required by yast2-core and yast2-printer.
yast2-core has a netcat dependency because it uses it to do some connect tests in the ag_hostnames agent.
Is this specific agent still in use?
yast2-printer has it in some tools, where it is unclear to me if they are run during regular usage.
I wonder if we can get rid of the hard netcat dependency here.
yast2-printer uses netcat in order to test accessibility of remote printers. Not having the netcat package installed would mean to lose this functionality. A workaround which should be possible is to remove it from dependencies but ask for the installation before test which requires it is executed. Jiri -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz