On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 17:01 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > The problem is lots of services require systemd because they ship a > unit file and want systemctl reload to happen. Systemd then triggers a > require for udev and kmod, which docker containers do not need. > > rpm -q --whatrequires systemd| wc -l > 151 > > On rawhide I see 151 packages on my system which require systemd. > > We have a couple of options we could add a package called fakesystemd > which provides a /usr/bin/systemctl that does nothing and does a > provides systemd in the specfile. Then if the user wanted to install > systemd into a container it would need to obsolete the fakesystemd package. > > Or we could break out /usr/bin/systemctl into its own package and have > it be smart enough to do nothing if systemd did not exist. Or you could just rpm -e systemd once you've done the initial rpm install, since it's just a Requires(post) and not a permanent Requires? - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct