[yocto] should systemd be considered harmful ?

[Diego Sueiro]

Alex,

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Alex Damian <alex.r.damian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In release 216, systemd includes a caching nameserver, and full TTY stream
> parsing. See details
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-August/022295.html
>
> I think the ever growing number of components in systemd will create
> conflicts with the normal tools, like libresolv, used in traditional UNIX
> systems.
>
> I think the number of components shipped with and required by systemd is
> pretty outside the scope for an init system.
>
> I would argue that the monolithic systemd is not in line with the UNIX
> philosophy of small tools that do one thing and do it well, and that it is
> actually contra-productive to use it in embedded systems due to the large
> number of dependencies needed to get it to run, as well as the difficulty
> to debug when something goes amiss.
>
> Can I get your opinions in the respect that systemd is a useful tool to
> have in the Yocto Project ?


I like systemd for embedded systems. The boot process is faster then
sysVinit and it's easy to create/manage services.
It should me nice if we can install "systemd-ecosystem" with some
granularity like we do with python, for example. But I don't know if it's
possible or not.


Regards,

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