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