Chroot installs and some upgrades from Fedora 8 end up without event-compat-sysv. Attempting to boot a system without event-compat-sysv causes bootup to get stuck shortly after switchroot. Should initscripts (or something else) require event-compat-sysv? We clearly cannot operate without it yet.
I suppose it could, however: - it's pulled in on upgrades because it obsoletes event-compat-sysv - it's pulled in on the most minimal installs as a mandatory package in the core comps group Ergo, I'm not seeing how you'd end up without it other than by manual removal.
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commit;h=2c92b1c09ab68926b9b4ecc72a85d92edf1590f1
Warren, can you answer Bill's question. Bill, can you do a build so that we can close this bug out of the blocker list?
Fixed in 8.70-1.
I don't know how yum upgrades ended up without event-compat-sysv. Anyhow, in discussion it was agreed that "it doesn't work without it" is a good enough reason to depend on it.