On 29 July 2015 at 21:09, Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com> wrote:The dependency on initscripts via VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts is a DEPENDS, so it's build time. The runtime dependency is on initscripts-functions.As far as I'm aware the sysv-generator used the rcX.d symlinks generated by update-rcd to decide what to start when, so you can't just disable the class and expect it to still work.
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts is installed at runtime (as you can tell by its name) in packagegroup-core-boot and packagegroup-core-full-cmdline both. If I don’t want it in my images, wiping the variable is the only method that makes any sense.
So there's the problem, and breaking watchdog isn't solving it.