On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:14 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > Why does yum erase wireless-tools want to: > Removing for dependencies: > anaconda > firstboot > rhpl > system-config-(boot,date,date-docs,firewall, > firewall-tui,keyboard,kickstart,language,lvm, > network,network-tui,rootpassword,users,users-docs) > > This is a wired desktop, that has absolutely no need for wireless > or indeed wpa-supplicant which want to remove: > NetworkManager > NetworkManager-gnome > anaconda > system-config-kickstart > > I know --nodeps could be used, or indeed use "network service" > but currently have no problems with NM > > Bu how?, are they tied into so much. > > Frank > I'm not sure about most of these, but I'd like to note that wpa-supplicant is not a wireless-only tool (that one of your sentences seem to imply). I use it at dorm to authenticate to wired network (as well as at home to authenticate to home wifi network). And because some NM features clearly require its presence, it would be broken if it did not require it. Martin
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