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 -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos