[yocto] is there a rationale for YP using sysvinit as default init manager?

[Paul Eggleton]

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?

Thanks
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel System Software Products