We want to stop systemd from being added to docker images, because of rpm requiring systemctl.

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 04/28/2014 06:44 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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
>
Although it would get sucked back in if a user did another yum install
(Update?) that needed systemctl.