On Sep 5, 2020, at 13:55, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:28 AM Richard Purdie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2020-09-05 at 08:15 -0700, Achara, Jagdish P wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Currently we have the option to choose either sysvinit or systemd .
>>> Would, at some point, openrc be included in this list of options to
>>> choose from?
>>
>> It comes down to the demand for it, whether there are people willing
>> the maintain it, how much of the system its planned to support and so
>> on. It has implications for the testing matrix for example.
>>
>> The hope is individual layers could add support for things like this
>> and that would let people use it and let us gauge demand too.
>
> init systems are quite taxing and intrusive to implement and hence I
> agree with testing complexity
> increase and in general higher maintenance work. meta-openrc seems a
> good solution for now,
> ideally, recipes should provide openRC scripts via bbappends and
> perhaps create it as a DISTRO_FEATURE
> but I think that's a good starting point to start with openrc and if
> there are many users showing interest in
> future we should definitely review it.
Devuan has also been testing in support of multiple init systems, which should
improve upstream package readiness. So far they have:
- sysvinit
- openrc
- runit
https://devuan.org/os/init-freedom
Rich
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