Comment # 1 on bug 904047 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Johannes Meixner from comment #0)
> +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #875606 +++
> 
> In short:
> Gnome cannot installed without the whole CUPS.
> 
> Reason:
> gnome-control-center has a hard RPM requirement for cups-pk-helper
> and cups-pk-helper has a hard RPM requirement for cups.
> 
> For SLE12 this was fixed in gnome-control-center by lowering
> 'Requires' to 'Recommends' for cups-pk-helper, see in OBS
> SUSE:SLE-12:GA/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center.changes  

Argument is moot: if nobody forwards fixes from SLE to oS, they won't be fixed
:)

Passing on to Atri to also lower the dep for pk-cups-helper to Recommends