Description of problem: As part of oVirt (http://ovirt.org), we need to use hal on our embedded node image. The hal package pulls in pm-utils, which pulls in the kbd package. However, it looks like based on the ChangeLog in the top level of the source tree: remove sysfont wrapper call. no other distro from fedora uses it On Jan 28, 2008 11:31 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists> wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008 9:42 PM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov> wrote: > > Gentoo does not have this utilities. Default gentoo init script that > > setting console font executes /bin/setfont > > That's because setsysfont is a Fedora specific wrapper script around > setfont in their initscripts package. > > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/initscripts/initscripts-8.60.tar.bz2/a0e888cc91ef6350a991985567d21366/initscripts-8.60.tar.bz2 In that case... Patch attached to remove 60sysfont. setsysfont is Fedora-specific, So I think the kbd dependency is no longer needed for pm-utils. This will save us 2MB of disk-space, which is important since we are trying to keep the compressed size of the node < 64MB. Attached is a simple spec file patch to do just this.
Created attachment 310345 [details] Patch to remove unnecessary kbd dependency from pm-utils
pm-utils uses chvt, which is in kbd, therefore the dependency is still needed. Maybe you can get chvt seperated from kbd, but currently I do not see a way to get rid of the kbd dependency.
Maybe the usage of chvt in pm-utils will be removed by upstream soon, when this happens and the version hits Fedora, the kbd dependency will be dropped.