On Tuesday, 13. September 2011 11:21:22 Walter Dnes wrote: > This thread reminds me of the old joke that an elephant is actually a > mouse designed by a committee. Trying to cover every possible edge case > with a one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work without bloating > everybody's system. If someone wants an arbitrary binary really early > in bootup, link it statically and save to /etc/udev/bin or where ever,
+1 > and leave the other 99% of us to ignore initramfs. Is this from the > same Redhat that brought us BlueCurve and made Pulseadio the default on > their OS? No, this is some other guy. Kay Sievers hacks on udev, systemd and related stuff. He's the one responsible for this "initramfs is needed for separate /usr"-crap afaict. The one doing pulseaudio is Lennart "BSD isn't relevant anymore" Poettering. Best, Michael
