From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7CD59CAF for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 16:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23A4321C025; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 16:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D388721C001 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 16:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([94.25.228.47]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LfCX2-1bZEGJ23FQ-00olhs for ; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 18:59:39 +0200 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 16:59:03 +0000 From: Consus To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge Message-ID: <20160409165903.GB28117@daphne> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <57087E0D.3090502@gmail.com> <20160409053230.GA16529@waltdnes.org> <20160409160938.GA17530@waltdnes.org> <20160409171508.72be3c6e@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160409171508.72be3c6e@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:/wz8H+qqIbALifsh9qa6qR66t5u5Y9bFpsAXV1e/aOo/CqfSubT vGrGCfM4g78ZYTyZKOxLmSLBwB/LSqmhLOs4REoeNl7hoDz5Mi7Wg9XCiyRXCV4rRjrZrQW oYMvP1zgZ+CLTdBj//U2sfJkfEwpoB/9Rj26/DlQGfVqk062mXhlaZazG7LQlmWz0NI0i5L nvp3KHTrNom/p/s6SgkPA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:UXAfo0hPa3Y=:QHAmIIIrDXY6BshI25UGRV aVDZSo7v7anjYvtVjz/HcJKX7QGA4KsoNJoakpfNzxZDCrugQDChEx5PYeqtqlhOTuxwzpyqp Zhh0RQ4JhioFDaDJPYtssqYMrCTlKm/w/64UlCxFhLQuLphiD8rk3ZsaG2hSl7+DlMA1CXsRO /Ibm3wZQ7KEM+7Afo3np/FEux3F9wY8dKTjcpLn6Lesb7VORFwfvlCt92fFRcGVki2tHWvsMI 4nM0dWt7Fse6/GxjNBzacty5C8Z/L6AeFUOqSc82HM8aI+TuZrFb3vnSctGKK1lUj/WTPlcwc tmEjiVYtmH+YiQyMvtDs64UKABM2n/GqbB2NsNCx+6MsvvF8unHaJo8kkdvuPynFPZ0xYbuIz dFuppBJex1CJP1G0Ac8toQMrNlMW8r/OQQYq+OF/QG/MjDXLHLc+F3e+boTrWjkXhVmaxY+N1 6eOoivaYXphRXas2PFVKyjm8f6qoIAHazEIBa2NQzhkC6KpHTjzLqHpvTv848RYr/k/1SARC9 costLa6lXAO/fB5QNiys5LNMuYJ/hmlQV+M2G/hDEHE9jTKdlddIYlR3hc6PD7FmQg7GCzdjO oB5RP5YmggTgwn9UXW7WF1P+0e1nKsC/7JyFbEDxjKnUB6MhKRv6HUjCsnevwKzFC+qBbHC+L klt4t8jAPqnILAcPo2nseBezadwC3OpMrnT6d7M3H5V01Q4mEZGbOjQtiL1LILt+vRf6C/qSJ wIFenefDMc8JB4yFwST8F389BotKWfMXWpoOJQWada5S3NxYdhrjZ9HYSKjD14wmWgHUnCqrr TEeF0hl X-Archives-Salt: 14766ae0-ee26-4721-9c30-219f87c09683 X-Archives-Hash: ec3cd974a63b4f5a4fad8e295010871a On 17:15 Sat 09 Apr, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400 > waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > I never really got the mentality that using an initramfs is a > > > burden. > > > > One more piece of software that can go wrong. You have to > > maintain+configure it; e.g. sync software and library versions with > > what's on the rest of the system. > > Errm, have you ever actually used dracut? > > dracut --kver 4.5 > > Wow, that was hard! It requires zero configuration and that's true even > if you've got LVM on top of LUKS on top of RAID or something equally > complex. If you're already running that kernel version, you don't even > need to specify it. In 2014 I switched from dracut to genkernel because after *every* dracut's update I was writing to it's devs about a new shiny bug. Like infinite loops in the pidof() implementation.