Richard Cooper wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Cent OS 5 box with a fairly full install which I'm trying to > strip down. Since this machine will be running headless I would like > to remove all of the X11 stuff which is installed on it. However, it > seems that the "redhat-lsb" package, which I would like to keep, is > dependent on X11 > > - redhat-lsb depends on /usr/bin/lpr > - /usr/bin/lpr is provided by cups > - cups depends on paps > - paps depends on pango > - pango depends on libX11 libX11 is a library. You can remove the other X11 components but still keep the shared library. You won't have a functional X11 - just one library that is from X11. This is not uncommon - many servers run php/python/perl etc. modules from drawing stuff that have dependencies on an X11 library - but do not have X11 installed, just a shared library from it.