Bug 1218156

Summary:	CUPS in server mode brings allow of unneeded packages
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Walddys Emmanuel Dorrejo Céspedes <dev.dorrejo>
Component:	Patterns	Assignee:	Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
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Description Walddys Emmanuel Dorrejo Céspedes 2023-12-18 12:28:32 UTC

Hello,

I am doing a clean server install with openSUSE Tumbleweed and removing unneeded packages like cups in a server installation, which it would be perfect remove it from minimal patterns because it brings X11 packages to server and a lot of not wanted packages.

The core packages looks like it's cups-config and not cups, when remove cups-config the next packages are removed with it:

1- cups (all packages)
2- samba and wsdd (all packages)
3- xbitmaps (not needed in server)
4- postfix (all related packages)
5- Some X11 libraries (not needed in server)
6- cronie and cron (Both packages needed in server)

Comment 1 Dominique Leuenberger 2023-12-20 10:43:38 UTC

Cups was installed by some very 'fun' method:

Basic packages present on all systems:
* man requires groff
* libX11-6 is required by libcairo
* libcairo is required by plymouth-plugin-labelft

This then triggers some weak deps:

* gxditview supplements groff and xorg-x11-libX11 aka libX11-6
* gxditview requires groff-full
* groff-full requires ghostscript-library
* ghostscript recommends cups-filters-ghostscript (provided by cups-filters)
* cups-filters requires cups

I have created a submitrequest to ghostscript to only trigger installation of cups-filters if cups is also present; this breaks the chain and does not auto-trigger installation of cups on every system.

Will be part of Snapshot 20231219 and later