[arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

[Allan McRae]

On 23/01/10 20:39, Alexander Duscheleit wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:16 -0600
> Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>> Did you mean ulibc?
>> No, not uClibc either. We're actually using glibc itself. Other
>> distros do this as well, as it DOES add a lot of flexibility
>
> Just out of curiosity. Was eglibc considered? Why? Why not?
>
> I can see, that maintaing just another libc only for minor
> space benefits in a short-lived initrd doesn't make a lot of sense, but
> Debian seems to think, that it could even be an all-out replacement for
> glibc in general.
>

There is really no advantage to using eglibc if you are on x86 or x86_64 
systems. Debian will find eglibc appealing because they support all 
sorts of platforms that are not particularly well supported by glibc.

Allan