I'm using netcfg@eth0.service to configure a static IP, however it seems that systemd insists on starting dhcpcd, ...

... can anyone enlighten me on how to stop dhcpcd from being started as it's not needed? I simply can't find any unit in /etc/systemd that would be doing it.

In your actual netcfg profile "eth0", what is IP set to? On my own home server, IP='static' (with ADDR, GATEWAY, and DNS defined after) and dhcpcd is not started by netcfg (run from netcfg.service). -ZekeS