[yocto] replace udhcpc

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Fri May 9 08:22:26 PDT 2014


On 9 May 2014 16:15, Neuer User <auslands-kv at gmx.de> wrote:
> Do you by chance know, why it depends on the xuser-account package? I
> don't want any additional user accounts on my system. If it is not
> essential I would remove it.

If you're applications are running as root then you can remove the
dependency on that package and the patch that changes the security
policy.  The reasoning is complicated but basically so that the "user"
can manipulate the network settings.

Ross



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