On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 5:33 PM Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:54:55PM +0000, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:56 PM Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:54:19AM +0000, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > > > Add sysvinit PACKAGECONFIG which is bound to DISTRO_FEATURES, this
> > > > then disables all sysvinit handling in systemd if it isn't present.
> > > >
> > > > Consolidate sysvinit handling so that when it's disabled we exclude all
> > > > sysvinit features.
> > > >...
> > >
> > > What exactly are "sysvinit handling" and "sysvinit features"?
> > >
> > > It seems to disable systemd-sysv-generator, and this is wrong.
> >
> > Like this it sets HAVE_SYSV_COMPAT which does disable
> > systemd-sysv-generator, but if sysvinit is disabled completely in the
> > distro, I'm missing why that's a bad thing?
> >
> > Or have I misunderstood what sysvinit in DISTRO_FEATURES is meant to
> > mean?
>
> sysvinit in DISTRO_FEATURES means that sysvinit is supported as init system.
>
> > I'd taken in that sysvinit not present in DISTRO_FEATURES meant
> > that packages should install systemd units, not rely on init scripts.
>
> Packages that do provide both are not the relevant ones.
>
> For packages that can provide both, if the init script gets installed
> it is ignored by systemd when there is also a systemd unit.
>
> systemd-sysv-generator provides support for packages that do not
> (yet) provide a systemd unit, only an init script.
>
> Disabling this could save a few bytes on a small system when no
> installed package needs it, but this is not in any way related
> to sysvinit in DISTRO_FEATURES.
>

That's the piece of context I'm missing then... so whilst adding
sysvinit as a PACKAGECONFIG is valid, it shouldn't be linked to
DISTRO_FEATURES?

-- 
Alex Kiernan
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