Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:24:21 +0200:
cups gets pulled in by the redhat-lsb package which has /usr/bin/lpr as a requirement.
It came in even after removing redhat-lsb. It stopped after using -- nobase.
sendmail is in the core group. If you kickstart, you can say
-sendmail postfix
in your package section to exclude sendmail from getting installed.
I know that I can remove single packages, but I'm sure there were more unwanted packages getting pulled in. That's why I wanted to know more about the cause.
You
don't want to exclude the redhat-lsb package, as that pulls in loads of needed software during the installation.
Thanks for the info. I checked the requires and I have most of them on the machine, anyway, probably from installing core. What's missing without redhat-lsb are a very few libraries like libICE. I'll see if adding redhat-lsb gives me cups again.
Kai