Re: [CentOS] sendmail and cups gets installed although not chosen in kickstart file

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

How can I find out what forced them (and probably many other unwanted packages) on the installation? I thought maybe "rpm -q --whatrequires sendmail" would tell me, but it doesn't. Nothing requires it. Same for cups. So, why did it get installed?

cups gets pulled in by the redhat-lsb package which has /usr/bin/lpr as a requirement.

sendmail is in the core group. If you kickstart, you can say

-sendmail postfix

in your package section to exclude sendmail from getting installed. You don't want to exclude the redhat-lsb package, as that pulls in loads of needed software during the installation.

Cheers,

Ralph