On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jim Pryor <lists+arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, Arch is in the process of moving to a different initcpio system. > It's not in any of the repos yet, but is in the pipeline. I haven't > fully understood what the changes will be. I think they're getting rid > of the use of klibc. Yeah, we're killing off klibc, as it's largely unmaintained. We're switching to actually using glibc and busybox. This comes at a size cost, but adds convenience and won't be too noticeable in terms of speed. We'll also gain improved filesystem detection and a better rescue shell. mkinitcpio, including the hooks/install pairs will remain as is, so the instructions provided in this thread will still work fine.
