[Buildroot] FYI: Udev and systemd to merge

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at 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