On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:14:40PM +0100, Matheesha wrote:
Hi,
I am asking this as I've just seen that some are experiencing issues
with disabling the firewall. While I was installing Fedora Test 2 I
chose not to install printing support and yet cups is installed and
is active. Both Cups and the Cups libraries are installed. I am a
newbie to Linux so I am not sure if Cups was installed as it may be
required for some other reason.
If you installed Gnome, you get Cups. Gnome is dependent on
Cups. Perhaps the Gnome RPMs could be re-done to use Cups if it is
present but not require it?
To determine the dependency chain, try uninstalling packages you don't
want, and follow the chain of complaints. E.g:
rpm -e <package>
The same goes for Open Office. I chose not to install any
Office/Productivity apps and yet Open Office libraries are
installed.
I believe that this is a bug, but I haven't filed it yet. I spotted it
in Beta 1, but am waiting to confirm it on Beta 2.
There is no reason for the OOo libraries to be installed other than
for OOo itself. I can't guess why there are three separate packages,
unless it is to keep the package size down to an average of 35 MB
each. I find this one particularly egregious because they account for
some 230 MB installed, and my test machine has 1.6 GB of usable disk
space.
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