> From: Canek Peláez Valdés [mailto:can...@gmail.com]
> I agree with most of what you say; however, I believe you are mistaken > about the static nature of the binaries in the initramfs created by dracut. I > use dracut with the whole bang (plymouth, systemd, udev, you name it), and > I don't have *any* of my packages compiled with "static-libs". Even more, my > system right now runs everything with "-static-libs". I like to think (and, > unless I missed something, that's in fact the truth) that my initramfs is > actually more or less in sync with my running system, and I update it a lot, > since it's trivial to do so with dracut. You're right, it wasn't plymouth, it was gensplash and crypt that wanted me to add static-libs. It was a USE-flag dependency so I could not proceed with the dracut install until I rebuilt those other packages. plymouth just needed wanted USE=libkms on libdrm.