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 E708E138202 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9225321C11B; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67D5D21C042 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (66-208-231-133.ubr01a.rte20201.pa.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [66.208.231.133]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Le5rg-1THbZp2bLY-00qNeV; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:00:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:00:52 -0600 From: Bruce Hill To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? Message-ID: <20121225020052.GO26547@server> References: <87txrd6pb3.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121223182037.1553813f@khamul.example.com> <87bodk7lb6.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121224085528.56f535ec@khamul.example.com> <50D85167.9060309@gmail.com> <20121224204817.335033c6@khamul.example.com> <50D8B467.4080100@gmail.com> <50D8D8D6.8090701@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:CaIgCFq3TDarhElZ3exXTMGjtEuUqbwrAmvieKmco62 CFzNWv9O4huLYLOoylRLLWSjR4KE/JH9ZKI6ok55I8FYN6Vf3X BbH2cYpxcK08Ycr9E2CUy1RU7gc2113B2y5R1LUqP2XDQayCsQ qDxHcgMX2UMSVsvarII9/4qJHEnR0g04gVuztb6fYSiK68Toas 2cz9H0zAC7BfSR7t6bE+rRjqBUsTrtFpSnuOsrV41O+yDdhDUp Zi5OzuXZ5Y+uttRjfaVxQx/Zku3xciey263u5veOW5MHIdFziz Ti23nOtBkoLACJaExOWBW/JuBzkHMINjKCW5LmCwbg0psfU+th Rjkdepu4FTNG/kEhaE77G7U4uYsL8E05xHlhJqml8 X-Archives-Salt: 33ee1c61-e5fb-4fed-8ee5-b2eee4e83564 X-Archives-Hash: cf9aed79a0caf537a699b5b03d64b2d1 On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:34:00PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'm also interested in Bruce's history about initrd. Sounds like if > that worked today I'd just use it to make an initrd and be done with > it. Unlike you, I guess, I don't have any political position on these > images that get used early on, any more than I do or do not like the > format of grub.conf or other things like that. > > Cheers, > Mark Everyone I know who uses an initrd writes his own script. You might read some of the files from Slackware: http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/slackware-14.0/source/a/mkinitrd/ For me, personally, there just isn't a reason for having an initrd in Gentoo. There are good and valid reasons that I use separate /var or /usr or LVM or RAID partitions that, under systemd's udev, would require an initrd. But IMO the OpenRC and >=sys-fs/udev-181 don't need to be rewritten, or obsoleted, by the mess that is systemd. As stated before ... I'm not of the mindset to have choices dictated to me. Bruce -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ support@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting