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+# Copyright (C) 2022 Digi International.
+
+# In sysvinit builds, cups pulls in procps as a dependency, which causes
+# conflicts when building the SDK, so remove it
+PACKAGECONFIG_remove = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'cups', '', d)}"
+
+# cups pulls in libusb1 as a dependency, but libusb1 is also needed implicitly
+# by a different freerdp component. Removing cups from PACKAGECONFIG will
+# remove this dependency and cause the build to fail, so we need make the
+# dependency explicit in this scenario.
+DEPENDS += " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'libusb1', '', d)}"