[Buildroot] FYI: Udev and systemd to merge

[Buildroot] FYI: Udev and systemd to merge

[Yegor Yefremov]

http://lwn.net/Articles/490413/rss

[Buildroot] FYI: Udev and systemd to merge

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:53:27 +0200,
Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> a ?crit :

> http://lwn.net/Articles/490413/rss

Yes, seen this. It isn't going to simplify our work. Both udev and
systemd are fairly complicated packages, so hearing that there are
going to be bundled together in the same source package is not a great
news.

Apparently, it will still be possible to build only udev, and keep a
non-systemd init. But still, it means a single source package that
actually contains two different binary packages. Not easy to handle
nicely in Buildroot.

I guess next year similar "joke" is to merge D-Bus in systemd.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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[Buildroot] FYI: Udev and systemd to merge

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> Yes, seen this. It isn't going to simplify our work. Both udev and
 Thomas> systemd are fairly complicated packages, so hearing that there are
 Thomas> going to be bundled together in the same source package is not a great
 Thomas> news.

 Thomas> Apparently, it will still be possible to build only udev, and keep a
 Thomas> non-systemd init. But still, it means a single source package that
 Thomas> actually contains two different binary packages. Not easy to handle
 Thomas> nicely in Buildroot.

I imagine systemd would just move to a sub option of udev, which would
add --with-systemd to the configure options or something like that, so
fairly limited impact.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard