[oe] systemd packages -> image

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Nov 10 09:47:34 UTC 2011


On Thursday 10 November 2011 08:47:17 Anders Darander wrote:
> * Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at gmx.de> [111109 23:17]:
> > Imagine a recipe is included into an image by a task and later gets
> > systemd- native support.
> > How about forcing the packages in SYSTEMD_PACKAGES packed into images in
> > case
> > 
> > IMAGE_INIT_MANAGER  = "systemd"
> > 
> > is found in the image definition?
> 
> Sure, that sounds like a nice idea. Although, in that case, SysV-init
> files should probably also be packaged in separate packages and be
> installed in a similar manner.

Why are we going to such an effort to provide both sysvinit and systemd in the 
same distro? Why not make it a distro policy decision? This would save a huge 
amount of work.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre




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