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Bug 513559

Summary:	Unnecessary dependencies
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Tethys <sta040>
Component:	avahi	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.2	CC:	dkovalsk, jpopelka, pknirsch, twaugh
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Tethys 2009-07-24 08:43:45 UTC

Description of problem:
# yum update cups
[...]
=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Updating:
 cups                    i386       1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6  updates           3.4 M
 cups-libs               i386       1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6  updates           193 k
Installing for dependencies:
 avahi                   i386       0.6.16-1.el5_2.1  updates           250 k
 avahi-compat-libdns_sd  i386       0.6.16-1.el5_2.1  updates            22 k
Updating for dependencies:
 cups-lpd                i386       1:1.3.7-8.el5_3

No! Stop that. I want to print stuff. I *don't* need zeroconf in order
to be able to do that. Maybe cups can make use of it if it's present,
but it's not necessary, and so avahi shouldn't be there as a dependency.
Stop bloating my system up with software I don't want or need.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum update cups
2. 
3.
  
Actual results:
Update cups and install avahi

Expected results:
Update cups

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2009-07-24 09:10:27 UTC

Can try to use dlopen() for that for a future update.

Incidentally, the cups package just has 'Requires: avahi-compat-libdns_sd' so
the 'avahi' dependency comes from that package.  It seems to be due to
libavahi-common.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2009-10-21 14:05:38 UTC

Filed avahi packaging issue: bug #530087.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2009-10-21 14:22:07 UTC

Changed component to avahi.  By altering the packaging of avahi, rather than patching cups, this problem can be avoided more easily and with less risk.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-06 18:45:47 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2010-06-02 13:47:18 UTC

There is already an open bug for the avahi packaging change in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so marking this as a duplicate of that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 483160 ***