On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:28 AM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@...> wrote:

On Sat, 2020-09-05 at 08:15 -0700, Achara, Jagdish P wrote:

Hi,

Currently we have the option to choose either sysvinit or systemd .
Would, at some point, openrc be included in this list of options to
choose from?

It comes down to the demand for it, whether there are people willing
the maintain it, how much of the system its planned to support and so
on. It has implications for the testing matrix for example.

The hope is individual layers could add support for things like this
and that would let people use it and let us gauge demand too.

init systems are quite taxing and intrusive to implement and hence I
agree with testing complexity
increase and in general higher maintenance work. meta-openrc seems a
good solution for now,
ideally, recipes should provide openRC scripts via bbappends and
perhaps create it as a DISTRO_FEATURE
but I think that's a good starting point to start with openrc and if
there are many users showing interest in
future we should definitely review it.

Cheers,

Richard