Doh! I should have tried "rpm -e" before mailing the list and I now know
why. I installed the admin tools and system tools which installed
redhat-printer-config. I had to remove the following packages in this
order to get rid of cups.
desktop-printing
redhat-config-printer-gui
redhat-config-printer
cups
As for the cups-libs it seems to be linked to a few apps I kinda like to
hang on to so it will have to remain.
rpm -e cups-libs
error: Failed dependencies:
libcups.so.2 is needed by (installed) samba-common-3.0.0-5rc1
libcups.so.2 is needed by (installed) ghostscript-7.07-10
libcups.so.2 is needed by (installed) libgnomeprint22-2.3.1-2
libcups.so.2 is needed by (installed)
gnome-vfs2-extras-0.99.10-3.1
libcups.so.2 is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs-extras-0.2.0-7
libcups.so.2 is needed by (installed)
printman-0.0.1-1.20021202.14
libcupsimage.so.2 is needed by (installed) ghostscript-7.07-10
[root@pc2-hem12-3-cust67 root]#
I'd like to hang on to the ghostscript and samba client utilities. I was
kinda surprised that cups-libs will be linked to samba-common and
ghostscript. Correct me if I am wrong but it may be possible to "build
and compile " ghostscript and samba with printing support turned off? If
so that would mean been able to remove cups-libs and still have
ghostscript and samba on the system. Well at least samba.
Cheers
M@
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:11, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:14:40PM +0100, Matheesha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am asking this as I've just seen that some are experiencing issues
> with disabling the firewall. While I was installing Fedora Test 2 I
> chose not to install printing support and yet cups is installed and
> is active. Both Cups and the Cups libraries are installed. I am a
> newbie to Linux so I am not sure if Cups was installed as it may be
> required for some other reason.
If you installed Gnome, you get Cups. Gnome is dependent on
Cups. Perhaps the Gnome RPMs could be re-done to use Cups if it is
present but not require it?
To determine the dependency chain, try uninstalling packages you don't
want, and follow the chain of complaints. E.g:
rpm -e <package>
> The same goes for Open Office. I chose not to install any
> Office/Productivity apps and yet Open Office libraries are
> installed.
I believe that this is a bug, but I haven't filed it yet. I spotted it
in Beta 1, but am waiting to confirm it on Beta 2.
There is no reason for the OOo libraries to be installed other than
for OOo itself. I can't guess why there are three separate packages,
unless it is to keep the package size down to an average of 35 MB
each. I find this one particularly egregious because they account for
some 230 MB installed, and my test machine has 1.6 GB of usable disk
space.