why do I need colord?

[Michał Piotrowski]

2011/11/8 Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>:
> 2011/11/7 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Out of curiosity I wanted to ask, why do I need colord on my system?
>>
>> My system is ordinary web developer box with php, python, postgresql,
>> mysql, memcached, cherokee, httpd etc. Colord was installed because of
>> dependencies. But I would like to know why I need this package? My
>> system worked without any problems without it for a few releases and
>> now this package is installed, despite the fact that I have not even
>> x.org installed.
>
> Well what dependencies brought it in. Unless we know what pulled it in
> can anyone know if that dependency is "legitimate". Without that
> information there is no way a person can answer without invalid
> assumptions.

I found the transaction, it seems that it was installed as dependency
for pdfjam, not as dependency for regular upgrade as I suspected. So
it's my fault, not bad dependecies :)

Transaction ID : 109
Begin time     : Thu Jun 30 21:47:33 2011
Begin rpmdb    : 401:171b28d7b0bbde4f6fa3dfd42c0577370ec84464
End time       :            21:50:02 2011 (149 seconds)
End rpmdb      : 439:846b495d5230641ab583f20aa8226677b7911a79
User           :  <michal>
Return-Code    : Success
Command Line   : install pdfjam.noarch
Transaction performed with:
    Updated       rpm-4.9.0-9.fc15.x86_64  ?
    Updated       yum-3.2.29-6.fc15.noarch ?
Packages Altered:
    Dep-Install colord-0.1.7-1.fc15.x86_64                      ?
    Dep-Install gd-2.0.35-12.fc15.x86_64                        ?
    Dep-Install ghostscript-9.02-1.fc15.x86_64                  ?
    Dep-Install ghostscript-fonts-5.50-24.fc15.noarch           ?
    Dep-Install kpathsea-2007-62.fc15.x86_64                    ?
    Dep-Install lcms-libs-1.19-4.fc15.x86_64                    ?
    Dep-Install lcms2-2.2-1.fc15.x86_64                         ?
    Dep-Install libICE-1.0.6-3.fc15.x86_64                      ?
    Dep-Install libSM-1.2.0-2.fc15.x86_64                       @fedora/15
    Dep-Install libXfont-1.4.3-2.fc15.x86_64                    @fedora/15
    Dep-Install libXt-1.1.0-1.fc15.x86_64                       ?
    Dep-Install libexif-0.6.20-1.fc15.x86_64                    ?
    Dep-Install libfontenc-1.0.5-4.fc15.x86_64                  ?
    Dep-Install libgphoto2-2.4.10.1-1.fc15.x86_64               ?
    Dep-Install libieee1284-0.2.11-10.fc15.x86_64               @fedora/15
    Dep-Install libv4l-0.8.3-2.fc15.x86_64                      ?
    Dep-Install lockdev-1.0.3-10.fc15.x86_64                    ?
    Dep-Install netpbm-10.47.26-2.fc15.x86_64                   ?
    Dep-Install netpbm-progs-10.47.26-2.fc15.x86_64             ?
    Dep-Install openjpeg-libs-1.4-6.fc15.x86_64                 ?
    Install     pdfjam-2.08-2.fc15.noarch                       @fedora/15
    Dep-Install poppler-0.16.6-1.fc15.x86_64                    ?
    Dep-Install poppler-data-0.4.4-2.fc15.noarch                ?
    Dep-Install psutils-1.17-37.fc15.x86_64                     @fedora/15
    Dep-Install sane-backends-1.0.22-3.fc15.x86_64              ?
    Dep-Install sane-backends-libs-1.0.22-3.fc15.x86_64         ?
    Dep-Install sane-backends-libs-gphoto2-1.0.22-3.fc15.x86_64 ?
    Dep-Install tex-preview-11.86-6.fc15.noarch                 ?
    Dep-Install texlive-2007-62.fc15.x86_64                     ?
    Dep-Install texlive-dvips-2007-62.fc15.x86_64               ?
    Dep-Install texlive-latex-2007-62.fc15.x86_64               ?
    Dep-Install texlive-texmf-2007-37.fc15.noarch               ?
    Dep-Install texlive-texmf-dvips-2007-37.fc15.noarch         ?
    Dep-Install texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-37.fc15.noarch         ?
    Dep-Install texlive-texmf-latex-2007-37.fc15.noarch         ?
    Dep-Install texlive-utils-2007-62.fc15.x86_64               ?
    Dep-Install urw-fonts-2.4-10.fc15.noarch                    @fedora/15
    Dep-Install xorg-x11-font-utils-1:7.5-6.fc15.x86_64         @fedora/15
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