On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:06:38 +0800
Brad Campbell <lists2009@???> wrote:

> On 02/01/16 02:18, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> > Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> >
> > [...]
>
> > For a real deployment, this is usually just humbug and can be
> > replaced with a kernel containing the drivers necessary for
> > mounting a root filesystem.
>
> That's nice, until you want to do something like an encrypted root,
> or encrypted swap with suspend/resume. That's pretty hard without an
> initramfs.

Why does everyone think I was advocating the banishment of initramfs?
Go back to my initial post and you'll see I was suggesting a way to
give the owner/admin a *choice* to go without initramfs. Let me quote
my original post:

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This wouldn't be mandatory. It wouldn't be default. But it would
provide one more attraction to the person who wants to be in control of
his computer, rather than vice-versa. I think it would be a feather in
Devuan's cap, and would further differentiate Devuan from Debian.
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SteveT

Steve Litt
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