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List:       osdl-lsb-discuss
Subject:    [lsb-discuss] Simple LSB packages are pulling in a lot of unneeded
From:       Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-13 10:30:22
Message-ID: 491C01BE.2050005 () gmail ! com
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Hi,

I am currently letting the distribution-independent printer driver 
packages on OpenPrinting depend on "lsb", so that with their 
installation everything gets installed to make the system LSB-compliant.

On Ubuntu Intrepid "lsb" pulls in

lsb-core, lsb-graphics, lsb-cxx, lsb-desktop, lsb-printing, 
lsb-multimedia, lsb-languages

Things like lsb-desktop and lsb-multimedia are usually not needed for a 
printer driver (something running on the CUPS server, converting 
PostScript or PDF into the printer's native language).

So the first approach would be to let these packages require only 
"lsb-core" and "lsb-printing" and not "lsb". Is this possible in an LSB 
package? Or is this modularization Ubuntu-specific?

Another problem is that "lsb-core" pulls a lot of things which are not 
necessarily needed, especially an MTA. See

http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407

which Martin Pitt has posted while I have written the first part of this 
posting.

It would be great that if in the LSB 4.0 era one can install 
distribution-independent printer driver packages without installing an 
MTA and without installing X and GTK.

    Till
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