[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alastair Scott) writes: > If you set up a non-server workstation (nothing selected, apart from a > window manager or managers, in the right-hand column of the top-level > package list) running tinyfirewall asks for shorewall and iptables to be > installed. > > Given that tinyfirewall is always installed as part of the Mandrake > Control Centre, should these packages not be installed by default? > > Alastair
tinyfirewall is a series of scripts on the MCC backend. This needs shorewall and iptables to work proprely. If one doesn't want to configure a firewall ... why install these packages then ? -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
