Comment # 4 on bug 1188915 from Joerg Roedel

(In reply to Antonio Feijoo from comment #3)
> Although this behavior seems wrong, after reading the dracut documentation
> (https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.
> html#dracutconf5), it's done on purpose.
> 
> -->
> dracut.conf is loaded during the initialisation phase of dracut. Command
> line parameter will override any values set here.
> 
> *.conf files are read from /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d and
> /etc/dracut.conf.d. Files with the same name in /etc/dracut.conf.d will
> replace files in /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d. The files are then read in
> alphanumerical order and will override parameters set in /etc/dracut.conf. 
> --<
> 
> So, I think it will not be easy to convince upstream to change this order...

So I guess the distro default needs to be set in another place? It seems wrong
to have no way of opting out of the hostonly setting.