[systemd-devel] [PATCH] MeeGo: Remove build support for MeeGo distribution.

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Auke Kok at 06/07/12 01:20 did gyre and gimble:
>> The MeeGo distribution is still a supported distribution, but
>> will probably not see an updated version of systemd anymore.
>>
>> Most of the development is focussing on Tizen now, and the
>> generic support for building --with-distro=other is more than
>
> With various news announcements, is this still true? I've seen a few
> reports of companies continuing on with MeeGo stuff. Don't want to start
> a flame war (not sure if any tensions exist between MeeGo and Tizen -
> I'm fairly ignorant of this stuff :))

We should just rename "other" to "systemd" or "proper" and prefix all
the other distro names with "legacy-*". :)

The long-term goal is to get rid of all these distro switches. They
are just meant to make the transition phase easier, and that is mostly
needed for the bigger generic and slower-moving distros with lots of
coordination needed.

Newer and rather flexible stuff like MeeGo should just make these
decisions and not rely on upstream systemd to ship their exceptions
from the defaults.

So removing distro stuff is always very welcome, and we should stop
adding new stuff here. I think we reached a point where the switch to
systemd, or building a new system from scratch gets pretty easy
compared to what we are coming from.

Kay