Bug 164386

Summary:	hal-cups-utils package depends on system-config-printer
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lamont Peterson <peregrine>
Component:	hal-cups-utils	Assignee:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
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Description Lamont Peterson 2005-07-27 15:46:13 UTC

Description of problem: 
I have to have system-config-printer installed if I want cups installed, 
because this package (hal-cups-utils) depends on system-config-printer. 
 
Is this not backwards? 
 
Taking a quick, cursory look at what is in hal-cups-utils, I do not see 
anything that would warrant such a dependency.  Of course, as I didn't look 
deep there could easily be a good technical reason, but that seems doubtful. 
 
Using --nodeps to remove system-config-printer does not seem to have affected 
hal-cups-utils negatively. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
hal-cups-utils-0.5.3-3 
system-config-printer-0.6.131.3-1 
   
Actual results: 
Trying to remove system-config-printer (and keep hal-cups-utils) fails because 
of dependencies). 
 
Expected results: 
One should be able to remove a package like system-config-printer and still 
keep the lower level functions/tools.

Comment 1 John (J5) Palmieri 2005-07-27 16:09:26 UTC

You don't need to have hal-cups-utils to have cups installed.  hal-cups-utils
needs system-config-printer to autoconfigure printers.  hal-cups-utils is just
the bridge between cups, hal and printconf (which is provided by
system-config-printer).  hal-cups-utils is pretty useless without it.