[arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 01/23/2010 08:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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
>
There is at least one advantage. The build system allows to select 
groups of functions to compile or not, for example network, ipv6, 
charsets, locales, maths, wide-chars, regex, nis, and others.
But maybe not necessary for initramfs.

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