NO TO SYSVINIT - or initscripts, rather!

Posted Nov 6, 2018 23:58 UTC (Tue) by ras (subscriber, #33059)
In reply to: NO TO SYSVINIT - or initscripts, rather! by Cyberax
Parent article: Init system support in Debian

> The total size was less than 1.5Mb for systemd and dropbear.

How did you pull that off? On Debian stretch systemd + libsystemd-shared-232.so alone are 3.3MB.

Hmmm. Looking at the debian archives the systemd v44 .orig.tar.gz ball dates from 6 years ago, and is 860K. systemd v239 .orig.tar.gz is 6.8MB. Have you noticed a 8 fold increase in functionality?

NO TO SYSVINIT - or initscripts, rather!

Posted Nov 11, 2018 11:24 UTC (Sun) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

That comparison is not nearly as valid as you seem to want it to be, because the v239 source tarball has broader scope than the v44.

Most trivially, v239 includes udev (whose tarball at the time of the merger in v183 was about 70% the size of the systemd tarball) and the udev HWDB (which was merged later, and is itself pretty huge).