Comment # 12 on bug 1202353 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #7)
> s-m-t has "Recommends: dracut". The comments says
> 
> +# Use weak dependencies for mkinitrd and kmod in order to
> +# keep Ring0 lean. In normal deployments, these packages
> +# will be available anyway.
> 
> This goes back to a discussion between dimstar and myself in 2019. I suppose
> this constraint can be removed now, because s-m-t is no longer part of Ring
> 0.

That was indeed the issue back then, when s-m-t was still in ring0.

Requiring 'kmod' should be no problem.

Requiring dracut might turn into a cycle though as dracut buildrequires s-m-t,
and if that one depends on dracut, dracut depends on itself to build, making it
impossible to bootstrap (BuildIgnore dracut in dracut.spec could help)