Yet another dependency question. cups & redhat-lsb ?

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Naoki wrote:

> # rpm -e cups
> error: Failed dependencies:
>       /usr/bin/lp is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3.x86_64
>       /usr/bin/lpr is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3.x86_64
>
> If nobody can see why redhat-lsb would need lp I'll file a 
> request.  I'd love to get server builds as cut down as 
> possible.


These seem to be dragged in by part of attaining POSIX 
conformance

see: 
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/lsb-wg/2005-April/000508.html

> 7. Commands added to align with POSIX: ed, logger, lp, 
> mailx, pax
> 
> Note that lp as a command does not imply the "System V lp" 
> subsystem, and for example, the "lp" that cups already 
> provides should be quite sufficient Note also that most 
> distros appear to have a package called mailx, but they 
> install the binary as Mail, we believe a simply symlink 
> would meet the requirement.

-- Russ Herrold