On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 03:36:21PM -0000, g...@cfware.com wrote: > I have no experience with containers so forgive me if I'm missing > something. Why couldn't you just have a 'microinit.rpm' in a separate > dnf repo, put 'Obsoletes: systemd' into that package? This way people > who are building hundreds of containers that do not require systemd > can use the repo containing microinit and it will take the place of > systemd. RPM macro's could be provided by the microinit rpm, so it > would provide reasonable replacements for %systemd_requires, > %systemd_post, etc. I think this could solve your concern with > minimum (no) impact to bare metal installs.
We actually experimented with this, and it was very, very messy. And also more prone to interfering with real systems than the proposed approach here. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
