On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > "why not use the ubuntu one?" debian and ubuntu share the same codebase ;D good question! > "why not use the suse one?" haha so you omit nash because it's no fun. > they all have some good and bad tradeoffs. Distro X has feature Y > which no-one else does. etc. starting from zero was also the path that initramfs-tools took. as initrd-tools written by Xu didn't scale up to all the new root ways. the flexibility and framework is although much better thought, it seems to me on a quick look. > When the project began we spent some time looking at what everyone > else already does, and "lets start over and hope others participate" > seemed more attractive than taking an existing one and bending it to fit. well the trouble is dracut is carrying already some design decisions, that make it currently a big nogo. beside from formal questions as commit accesses to interested devs. please be more precise what speaks against initramfs-tools. -- maks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html