kernel.spec: is "Requires: initscripts" really needed?

[Kay Sievers]

Heya,

when installing a kernel in a minimal system, it pulls in
a bunch of otherwise not needed packages, because
initscripts.rpm has a dependency on them. Any specific
reason to keep that, or can we possibly drop it?

Thanks,
Kay


$ yum install kernel

...
===============================================================================================================
 Package                   Arch              Version                                   Repository         Size
===============================================================================================================
Installing:
 kernel                    x86_64            3.11.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc20                  fedora             31 M
Installing for dependencies:
 hostname                  x86_64            3.13-1.fc20                               fedora             15 k
 initscripts               x86_64            9.48-1.fc20                               fedora            413 k
 iproute                   x86_64            3.9.0-1.fc20                              fedora            478 k
 iptables                  x86_64            1.4.18-1.fc19                             fedora            415 k
 iputils                   x86_64            20121221-3.fc20                           fedora            154 k
 linux-atm-libs            x86_64            2.5.1-7.fc19                              fedora             26 k
 linux-firmware            noarch            20130607-26.git2892af0.fc20               fedora             17 M
 procps-ng                 x86_64            3.3.8-8.fc20                              fedora            270 k
 sysvinit-tools            x86_64            2.88-12.dsf.fc20                          fedora             62 k
...