Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
> - genkernel needs to migrate to *udev (or as I did, provide a --udev
> genkernel option), mdev is unable to properly activate LVM volumes and
> LVM is actually working by miracle with openrc. Alternatively, we
> should migrate to dracut.

I'm not sure what "migrating to dracut" actually means.  A gentoo
install doesn't include genkernel in the first place - it is installed
manually.

If you mean documenting how to use dracut in the handbook, then I
think that makes sense - we already document multiple alternatives
like genkernel, manual kernel builds, grub, lilo, etc.

I've been running dracut for almost a year now and it has been working
well, though I might note that I had to build a custom module to get
mdadm+LVM to work (not sure if current versions work out of the box,
and my use of old mdadm metadata versions due to previously having
followed the Gentoo mdadm+lvm guide might have something to do with
it).

Honestly, I'm not sure how important it is to be able to switch
back/forth at runtime.  We should definitely support both options
reasonably well, but not to the point where people end up with a lot
of dependencies/complexity that a typical user doesn't actually have
need for.

Rich