On 5/26/14, 10:56 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:


0002-RHEL-6-RHEL-7-Fedora-Drop-Requires-on-openscap-utils.patch

From 3c42c661b4f12d57fda35c3506bde1140a09a02f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:26:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [RHEL/6, RHEL/7, Fedora] Drop Requires on openscap-utils.
 Add a note into                          manual pages regarding that.

Signed-off-by: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@redhat.com>
---
 Fedora/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8 | 7 +++++++
 Fedora/scap-security-guide.spec              | 2 +-
 RHEL/6/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8 | 7 +++++++
 RHEL/7/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8 | 7 +++++++
 scap-security-guide.spec                     | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Fedora/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8 b/Fedora/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
index 7758f37..50235d9 100644
--- a/Fedora/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
+++ b/Fedora/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ scanning of general-purpose Fedora systems.
 
 
 .SH EXAMPLES
+
+.B "NOTE: "
+Example below assumes the openscap-utils package is installed on the system.
+If that's not the case to install the openscap-utils package run the
+.I yum install openscap-utils
+command as the root user.
+
 To scan your system utilizing the OpenSCAP utility against the
 common profile, run:
 
diff --git a/Fedora/scap-security-guide.spec b/Fedora/scap-security-guide.spec
index c5a8911..adf92a5 100644
--- a/Fedora/scap-security-guide.spec
+++ b/Fedora/scap-security-guide.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Source0:	http://fedorapeople.org/~jlieskov/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:	http://repos.ssgproject.org/sources/%{name}-%{rhelssgversion}.tar.gz
 BuildArch:	noarch
 BuildRequires:	libxslt, expat, python, openscap-utils >= 0.9.1, python-lxml
-Requires:	xml-common, openscap-utils >= 0.9.1
+Requires:	xml-common
 Obsoletes:	openscap-content < 0:0.9.13
 Provides:	openscap-content
 
diff --git a/RHEL/6/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8 b/RHEL/6/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
index 44ae1ab..e676d35 100644
--- a/RHEL/6/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
+++ b/RHEL/6/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ webpage at http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb_content.html.
 
 
 .SH EXAMPLES
+
+.B "NOTE: "
+Example below assumes the openscap-utils package is installed on the system.
+If that's not the case to install the openscap-utils package run the
+.I yum install openscap-utils
+command as the root user.
+
 To scan your system utilizing the OpenSCAP utility against the
 stig-rhel6-server-upstream profile:
 
diff --git a/RHEL/7/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8 b/RHEL/7/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
index 97c4aec..7625fdd 100644
--- a/RHEL/7/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
+++ b/RHEL/7/input/auxiliary/scap-security-guide.8
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ webpage at http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb_content.html.
 
 
 .SH EXAMPLES
+
+.B "NOTE: "
+Example below assumes the openscap-utils package is installed on the system.
+If that's not the case to install the openscap-utils package run the
+.I yum install openscap-utils
+command as the root user.
+
 To scan your system utilizing the OpenSCAP utility against the 
 stig-rhel6-server profile:
 
diff --git a/scap-security-guide.spec b/scap-security-guide.spec
index fad1c6f..c23be44 100644
--- a/scap-security-guide.spec
+++ b/scap-security-guide.spec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Source0:	http://repos.ssgproject.org/sources/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildArch:	noarch
 
 BuildRequires:	libxslt, expat, python, openscap-utils >= 0.9.1, python-lxml
-Requires:	xml-common, openscap-utils >= 0.9.1
+Requires:	xml-common
 
 %description
 The scap-security-guide project provides a guide for configuration of the
-- 1.8.3.1



I'd like to open this up to the community.....  Is it beneficial for OpenSCAP to simultaneously installed with SSG?

On one side the inclusion means you get tools+content with one command, which is particularly useful for those new to SCAP. On the other hand it's been mentioned that this drives users to believing SSG only works with OpenSCAP. There's no intention of "forcing" OpenSCAP on people.

So, to the user community, is auto inclusion of OpenSCAP annoying or useful?