Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:29:58
Message-Id: 000c01cd0d07$ff3f19b0$fdbd4d10$@kutulu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 > From: Canek Peláez Valdés [mailto:caneko@×××××.com]
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4 > I agree with most of what you say; however, I believe you are mistaken
5 > about the static nature of the binaries in the initramfs created by dracut. I
6 > use dracut with the whole bang (plymouth, systemd, udev, you name it), and
7 > I don't have *any* of my packages compiled with "static-libs". Even more, my
8 > system right now runs everything with "-static-libs". I like to think (and,
9 > unless I missed something, that's in fact the truth) that my initramfs is
10 > actually more or less in sync with my running system, and I update it a lot,
11 > since it's trivial to do so with dracut.
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13 You're right, it wasn't plymouth, it was gensplash and crypt that wanted me to add static-libs. It was a USE-flag dependency so I could not proceed with the dracut install until I rebuilt those other packages.
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15 plymouth just needed wanted USE=libkms on libdrm.