Re: Removing ipchains leeds into dependency chaos
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:16:35PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote:
> in my little network, I now have a server which is declared as firewall.
> I wanted to remove the not longer needed packages. But removing ipchains
> leeds into an chain reaction of removed packages! Some important
> packages like mailx want to be removed!
>
> Who to blame for it? Just try out... Some of your most needed packages
> will be removed. I think it is worth a bug report. But to whom?
The problem (if you want to call it that) is that netbase depends on ipchains
(or ipfwadm, or iptables):
$ apt-cache showpkg ipchains
Package: ipchains
[...]
Reverse Depends:
netbase,ipchains
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- mdz
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