On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 23:32:40 +0100
Micky Del Favero <micky@???> wrote:

> Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> writes:
>
> > No, rather freedesktop.org and Poettering are largely synonomous.
> > Most of what is proposed there lately is mostly either from
> > Poettering or his minions and a lot of what they propose is crap at
> > best and destructive to the non-systemd ecosystem at worst.
>
> ok, but "a lot of" is not all, so some ideas can be good and it's
> stupid not take them.
>
> > Devuan will continue to use an initramfs as a default is that is the
> > only sane approach that provides broad support for most use cases.
> > But of course we will support users being able to have the choice to
> > build there own initramfs free system too. They just have to build
> > the tooling needed for that approach as packages for devuan.
>
> I agree with it

And I'd be delighted with the ability to go initramfs-free, on my
simpler pure ext4 systems.

Thanks,

SteveT

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