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. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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