Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 164386
hal-cups-utils package depends on system-config-printer
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:48:44 EDT
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.
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.