-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2013-06-27 at 13:30 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le jeudi 27 juin 2013 à 12:59 +0200, Stephan Kulow a écrit :
On 27.06.2013 12:54, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2013-06-27 11:14, Arvin Schnell wrote:
I want you to tell your opinions .
Yes, the size of boot should be increased, up to half a gigabyte at least. Or more, to last more years. 150 megs is ridiculous nowdays.
Of course the things you consider bloat here are worth one MB or less. The real bloat is the bootsplash graphics. In the old days the initrd has one graphic to load and the animation started only when the early boot process took over. Nowadays plymouth needs to be in the intird and this adds *really* a lot. Plus we add splashy, which is even less needed.
Someone will have to maintain this some day ;(
Before "maintaining", we need to clean this "mess". We should switch to dracut (which is maintained and allow smaller initrd), see if we can reduce plymouth footprint (it is mostly caused by the text support for passphrase) and get right of splashy (it is pulled by suspend, which is strange, I implemented plymouth support in suspend a lot time ago..).
I use a separate /boot partition, sized 200MB a few years back. I intentionally remove plymouth from my systems to reduce initrd size. And yes, I need the boot process to ask for my encription password. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHMjqcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XW6ACdGwNQR6BHwPviw3L8EHfKLJQI AfEAnRMiwEG2e67yI6R8rRU9t+Z0mwVc =S5ZB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----