On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:36 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:

> The real question should probably be, why does a generic package that
> identifies the system (redhat-lsb) and is required by 3rd party
> vendors require an optional package that provides printing support ?

> If it would only depend on cups-libs, I would be less worried. But the
> fact that it actually requires cups (lpr) and X libraries seems very
> peculiar to me.

It appears RHEL 5 is LSB 3.1 compliant. After quick perusal, I only see
where LSB 3.2 requires printing libraries and certain commands, but it
appears Red Hat is loosely interpreting LSB compliance to include all of
CUPS instead of just the libraries.

http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/lsb.shtml

/Brian/
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