From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SD2qw-00061Z-Nv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:04:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 560B2E0DDA for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.141]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF2CE0D32 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.142] (helo=NeddySeagoon) by smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SD17W-0004Ob-NZ for gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:13:34 +0000 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:13:34 +0100 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 3 April 2012, 19:00 UTC To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: (from rich0@gentoo.org on Wed Mar 28 22:46:24 2012) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.8 Message-Id: <1332972814.6980.1@NeddySeagoon> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Smarthost02-IP: [62.3.120.142] X-Archives-Salt: 19e54265-8a58-4c80-8520-0f36b6846b7e X-Archives-Hash: 9dd6951d0b4e1e987cc0001768dcdc35 On 2012.03.28 22:46, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Ulrich Mueller > wrote: > > - dracut: I failed to find any documentation in our handbooks. > > =A0Anyway, dracut looks like overkill for my simple usage case. > > >=20 > I dunno - dracut aims to be the ultimate generic automagic > plugin-supporting option, so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Its > biggest issue is that its features have overtaken the documentation, > and it is still pretty raw. >=20 [snip] >=20 > Rich >=20 >=20 I really don't want any autoblackmagic involved in the booting of my=20 systems. If I don't understand it I can't fix it when (not if) it=20 breaks.=20 I have separate /usr everywhere and most places raid and lvm, so I=20 already have initrds most places. I will reluctantly move to an initrd=20 everywhere - but only if I can roll it by hand, so I can fix it by hand=20 too. --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees =