On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:47:37PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > 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).
me too -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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