David Wright wrote:
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.
So far, you are absolutely right: Those dependencies are also strange to
me, I think they are set the wrong way: the palm module should require
kontact, (or its gnome equivalent) not reverse.
Will removing the YAST bluetooth module really kill YAST or will YAST just not
show that module?
For the yast modules, I found the availability of those modules verry
helpfull: just use them triggered the installer to install the needed
software. However, I can imagine ordinary users should not be bothered
with all possible modules.
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?
Is is possible to have a combined dependency: If you have just kontakt
installed, there is no palm-library requirement. If you just have some
palm tools installed but not kontakt, there is still no requirement.
Only if both kontakt and palmtools are installed then the combining
library is to be installed.
CBee
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