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> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk] |
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> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:04 PM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting |
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> software to /sbin rather than initramfs? |
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:35:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > >> Don't forget boot-time X-based animation, too. That's an |
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> > >> extraordinarily common feature of mainstream desktop distributions. |
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> > >> And there will be other things, I'm sure. |
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> > > I don't get involved with those, but I'd hope something intended to be |
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> > > run so early would have minimal dependencies, if any. |
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> > There's a pretty firm distinction between what things get used for, |
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> > and what they're intended for. The udev developers presumably were |
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> > reacting to this when they decided to support an "anything goes" |
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> > policy regarding plugscript behavior. |
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> > And while I'm generally the kind of person to find unintended (but |
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> > perfectly compatible with their spec) uses for things, I don't figure |
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> > on being one to do so in my init sequence. That said, someone else |
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> > will. |
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> I know what you mean, but here we are discussing something being used for |
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> its intended purpose. If a bootsplash program is not designed to work |
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> well a the start of the boot process, you have to wonder what it will be |
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> good for. |
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splashutils, which is the package dracut uses to generate a boot splash |
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image, has a lot of dependencies but requires they all be built |
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USE=static-libs. Plymouth, which does animated boot splash, is a bit worse; |
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it installs a few dozen files, about half of that data. Then again, if |
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you're putting an animated boot splash image on your initramfs, I don't |
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think you're all that worried about space :) |
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--Mike |