On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 10:08 +1300, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Friday, 22 November 2019 9:40:35 AM NZDT Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 14:02 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > don't get me wrong, i have no problem with that, but a > > > colleague > > > asked me what the reason was for using sysvinit as the *default*. > > > i > > > hemmed and hawed and suggested it was for simplicity and > > > reliability, > > > and that a lot of embedded systems didn't need the flashy > > > features of > > > systemd, and so on. > > > > > > is there any short answer to give to that question? > > > > The project existed before systemd and we haven't changed the > > default. > > > > We can change the default, it just means someone going through and > > fixing the build failures it generates and rewriting all the test > > metadata to invert poky and poky-altcfg. Personally I've got other > > things I'd prefer to do... > > Kai was working on changing this in the last cycle but AFAICT not all > issues were able to be resolved in time. Kai, do you have a status > update?
We got so far and after looking at the position we ended up I decided it was easier to switch poky-altcfg rather than change poky and/or OE defaults. I resolved that bug as "complete" as we now had testing of systemd on a near enough equal footing to sysvinit which was the concern people had raised. There are problems in oe-selftest and some other corner cases but nothing people seem to be running into day-to- day. There has been representation at OE meetings, in surveys and from YP members for us not to switch the default FWIW. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto