redhat-lsb is IIRC not a "real" package per se, but a metapackage providing the bits to make fedora (at least partially) LSB compliant.

And I suspect that LSB mandates that there is a /usr/bin/lp.

# rpm -e cups error: Failed dependencies: /usr/bin/lp is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3.x86_64 /usr/bin/lpr is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3.x86_64 If nobody can see why redhat-lsb would need lp I'll file a request. I'd love to get server builds as cut down as possible.

7. Commands added to align with POSIX: ed, logger, lp, mailx, pax Note that lp as a command does not imply the "System V lp" subsystem, and for example, the "lp" that cups already provides should be quite sufficient Note also that most distros appear to have a package called mailx, but they install the binary as Mail, we believe a simply symlink would meet the requirement.

Naoki (naoki(a)valuecommerce.com) said: > We get a lot of these I know, and for the most part the disk space saved > isn't worth the trouble. But then again the less junk installed on a > server the better. So on that note : > > # rpm -e cups > error: Failed dependencies: > /usr/bin/lp is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3.x86_64 > /usr/bin/lpr is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-10.3.x86_64 > > If nobody can see why redhat-lsb would need lp I'll file a request. I'd > love to get server builds as cut down as possible. Defined interface in the lsb spec. Bill