diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend b/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
index b09f2e2..3663434 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@
     ${exec_prefix}/lib/systemd/catalog/*.*.catalog \
 "
 
+# udev is added to the USERADD_PACKAGES due to some 'render' group
+# being necessary to create for /dev/dri handling, which we don't
+# have to worry about.  A side-effect of this is udev would RDEPEND on
+# 'shadow' which prevents us from putting it into the initramfs.  We
+# have plenty of other stuff that RDEPENDS on 'shadow' so, remove udev
+# from USERADD_PACKAGES to get around that.
+USERADD_PACKAGES:remove = "udev"
+
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[init] = "${base_sbindir}/init"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY[init] ?= "300"