On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:55, Raymond Wooninck
On Tuesday 22 October 2013 12:16:50 Jeff Mahoney wrote:
It seems like there's an option 4 missing here: Add the required functionality. Is the lack of those libraries in the initrd on purpose or has someone not added the functionality to Dracut yet? I'm all for unifying on standard packages, but I don't want to see user experience regressions in the process. I assume that Dracut will only include the luks stuff if it's required for the root file system -- couldn't we key off of that to determine whether to include the libraries for Plymouth?
The required functionality can be easily added to Dracut and it would just to take maybe 5 minutes to do so. However I wanted to take the opportunity to validate if this is still the preferred option as that we had quite some complaints about the size of the initrd, etc.
Raymond
Separate from the install-system / live-system initrd, what NEEDS to be in the initrd / initramfs phase? Can we make a renewed definition, to get a smaller standard? As it is, mkinitrd runs every kernel update at least, would it that bad to run it during system install / update once? For most, the host-specific (-H) option would bring a reduction. Otherwise, Question: If we tamper with this stuff anyway, please, can we add an option for: non-graphic / text-only boot? Getting rid off Plymouth / other graphic boot things gets harder every new distro release. Maybe call it "Text-only (Server)" boot. - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org