It would also be nice if dracut didn't have a hard dependency on them too. It pulls in a rather large tree of deps that are generally not used on a large amount of Fedora devices.

only dracut-network has these dependencies, which is why it is a subpackage

Shouldn't systemd start them only on demand ?

in an ideal world, of course. But most of these scripts are old LSB scripts and not service files. Also this would involve udev rules, which would start these scripts on demand, if such a device is discovered.

#!/bin/bash
#Dependencies services package
#Turning off un-needed services on a Mythtv box
#One network NIC, no NSF, Selinux=0, no RAID, no wireless...
# VERY MINIMAL!
 echo ""
 echo " ********************************* "
 echo " Turning un-needed things off"
 echo " ********************************* "

for s in atd \
        auditd \
        avahi-daemon \
        bluetooth \
        cgconfig \
        cgred \
        cups \
        dc_client \
        dc_server \
        dnsmasq \
        ebtables \
        firstboot \
        gpsd \
        haldaemon \
        ip6tables \
        irda \
        iscsi \
        iscsid \
        ksm \
        ksmtuned \
        libvirt-guests \
        libvirtd \
        lvm2-monitor \
        mdmonitor \
        NetworkManager \
        netconsole \
        netfs \
        nfs \
        nfslock \
        nmb \
        ntpd \
        ntpdate \
        openct \
        openvpn \
        pcscd \
        portreserve \
        psacct \
        rdisc \
        restorecond \
        rpcbind \
        rpcgssd \
        rpcidmapd \
        rpcsvcgssd \
        rsyslog \
        saslauthd \
        sendmail \
        smb \
        smolt \
        snmpd \
        speech-dispatcherd \
        snmptrapd \
        squid \
        svnserve \
        vboxdrv \
        vboxweb-service \
        wicd \
        wpa_supplicant \
        ypbind
do echo "chkconfig $s off";
chkconfig $s off;
done
 echo ""
 echo " ********************************* "
 echo " Turning minimal needed things on"
 echo " Httpd so webmin & mythweb work "

echo "********************************* "

for s in abrtd \
        httpd \
        network \
        mysqld \
        sshd \
        udev-post \
        xinetd
do echo "chkconfig $s on";
chkconfig $s on
done

 echo ""
 echo " ********************************* "
 echo " DONE...."
 echo " ********************************* "