> Does it also move "systemd-ask-password" to -extra?

Yes, systemd-ask-password is/was also part of systemd-extra-utils, along with 
several other files.

> For a distro that targets embedded devices (i.e. where services aren't going 
> to use
> systemd's ask-password facility because nobody will ever be around to manually
> respond to such prompts for services *anyway*), I think it would be fine to 
> leave
> out these binaries from the main package and patch out the warning or 
> something like that...

I just checked upstream OpenEmbedded.

They responded to the warning by moving the password stuff back into the main 
systemd package:

https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/meta/recipes-core/systemd?id=a87d523ab24e4ea87d1b19ea3a0c515cc47db1b6

-James M

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