On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:28 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > Ok I'm gonna push the Big Red Button here, and assume you may not have > met 'genkernel' ..
Genkernel has been around for a LONG time. I'm well aware of it. > ok its not a package, but its the nearest thing to > Gentoo's solution to what you're suggesting ... And it's in the Handbook > .. so, where's the issue, again?! 1. As you point out, its not a package. That means it works differently than everything else, and it can't be used as a dependency/etc. 2. Genkernel's initramfs isn't all that great. Don't get me wrong - it was very good back when it was new. However, I find it hard to compare it to the likes of dracut. However, if it were all that serious of an issue somebody would have fixed it by now. Manually building a kernel and using dracut is easy enough, and of course some prefer to not use an initramfs if their configuration allows it. -- Rich
