On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Grepping in the tree, looks like only some old genkernel versions are > depending on it. Apart of that, what is requiring static libs in > cryptsetup and lvm2?
This isn't the specific answer you're likely looking for, but the obvious answers would be: 1. Booting without /usr mounted if any of cryptsetup/lvm2's libs are located in /usr (not the case for lvm2 on my system at least). 2. Any initramfs creation tool that isn't smart enough to realize what cryptsetup/lvm2 are linked to and copy those into the initramfs (shouldn't be an issue in anything modern). Rich