On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Enrico Scholz <enrico.sch...@sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote: > 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.
I fully support this! I also want this flexibility back (in fact I see no reason why it has been dropped). -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
