Hello, it would be nice when the decision to make the init manager a distribution feature will be reverted to the old oe-meta mechanism.
Being a distribution feature means, that packages are created in such a way that it is impossible to split off unwanted and heavy weighted functionality at image creation time. E.g. on most of my systems, I create two kinds of images: a full featured, systemd based one and a very minimal rescue system with busybox and some filesystem utilities. With recent systemd packaging change, the rescue image size grow up from 5.9 MiB to 27 MiB because systemd dependencies are hardcoded in mandatory packages. Formerly, systemd dependencies could be avoided by adding the -systemd packages to BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS (e.g. due to busybox-syslog -> busybox-syslog-systemd rrecommend). I am aware that initscripts were always part of the main package. But sysvinit was very lightweighted and the extra space either negligible or easy to recover by removing some files in IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND. Hence my recommendation: make the init manager an image feature again and create -systemd and -sysv packages with the corresponding scripts. OpenEmbedded is still for embedded devices where size matters. Of course, systemd can be still a distribution feature to enable things like socket activation as part of PACKAGE_CONFIG. But dependencies on init system packages should be RRECOMMENDS which can be overridden easily at image creation time. Enrico _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
