Something that has been bugging me for a while, but why do I need to install packages for hardware I don't own?
For example the Palm Pilot packages are installed by default, if I try and remove them YAST complains and says I need to delete Kontact, Task Juggler and a bunch of other applications if I want to remove the palm pilot software. Similar things happen for bluetooth, iRDA and wlan. These are optional hardware items which a majority of systems probably don't use and therefore don't require the drivers and packages, but trying to remove them brings up scores of warnings about dependencies. Shouldn't these packages be totally optional and not affect anything else, other than palm/wlan/bluetooth configuration utilities, and things like Kontact should use them as add-in modules... Saying that, having removed the Palm modules, Kontact seems to run just fine, just not showing any signs of instability or crashing because it can't find the Palm Pilot libraries or tools. Will removing the YAST bluetooth module really kill YAST or will YAST just not show that module? If these packages are optional dependencies (i.e. if you use Kontact *and* have a Palm Pilot to synchronise, you need the Palm libraries, but if you don't have a palm pilot, it is doesn't mean you have to delete Kontact), can they please stop recommending that we delete half of our system out of spite? Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
