On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:59 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > 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. Which is exactly why NM requires the supplicant, because without it, you can't connect to 802.1x-protected *wired* networks like yours, and you can't just plug in a wifi adapter and have it work out of the box. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
