<div dir="auto"><div>Does it also move "systemd-ask-password" to -extra?<div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">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...</div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 9, 2025, 16:58 James Muir (jamesmui) <<a href="mailto:jamesmui@cisco.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jamesmui@cisco.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> <div id="m_-12116645970574295m_-5193243762504412879mail-editor-reference-message-container"> <div> <div> <div> >> Any comment on my other question: is systemd-tty-ask-password an optional component? > > It is optional. You can skip it with --no-ask-password. If you did not, > it is assumed you wanted password agent and the warning is correct. It > is just a message, systemctl does not fail if it could not launch > password agent. So, even from this angle it is optional. Maybe you mean > "warning should be optional"? Thanks for your reply. I want to know if it makes sense for the executable /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent to be absent. OpenEmbedded puts systemd-tty-ask-password-agent in a separate install-package (systemd-extra-utils). If you install the main systemd package, but not systemd-extra-utils, then /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent won’t exist on your system; but there is still a reference to /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent inside libsystemd-shared-255.so. I wonder if systemd-tty-ask-password-agent should be moved into the main systemd package. -James M </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div>