systemd-sysusers seeks to unify user creation[1]. It also has the benefit of being able to create users on bootup. But, it pulls in the entire systemd infrastructure with all it's dependencies.
containers do not need systemd to run. They are trying to be as small as possible. But if a package in container needs to add a user, then systemd is pulled in and that container grows by up to 60M.[2] Minimizing containers, both in the short term and long term, are important to the minimization team. We have opened an issue for this.[3] Any ideas on what we recommend to users? Troy Dawson [1] - https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/442 [2] - The amount a container grows when systemd is added depends on how many of the systemd dependencies are needed by the main container packages. As of F31, if they need none of these dependency packages, then a container grows by 60M by adding systemd. [3] - https://pagure.io/minimization/issue/13 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
