[arch-general] [PATCH 35/48] find has a builtin delete action. Use it instead of exec'ing rm.

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 01.07.2010 00:40, schrieb Victor Lowther:
>> I have no problem having GNU-specific features in there, as we can rely
>> on GNU find (or GNU whatever) being present. The only exception is
>> initramfs - however, no shell script is used in both the system and
>> initramfs
> 
> That is one reason I helped write and use dracut (the new initramfs
> generation framework that Fedora 12 and 13 use, and that RHEL6 will
> use) -- instead of using busybox/klobc/whatever, it trades a slightly
> larger initramfs for the convienence of using exactly the same
> binaries the installed system uses for everything.  I will happily
> trade a few hundred K larger initramfs for not having to maintain
> another toolchain and userspace just for the initramfs.

Well, it's basically what I did in mkinitcpio 0.6. I dumped klibc and
all the packages that used it in favor of pure glibc binaries.

However, I still use busybox instead of util-linux-ng and coreutils: It
is much more convenient to just run "busybox --install -s" and have a
fully functional environment than having to collect all the basic tools
and make sure they are installed. The maintenance effort for busybox is
almost nonexistent, and it offers many tools that you wouldn't install
into initramfs otherwise. I am convinced that this is the best of both
worlds, I get a feature-rich and very very small initramfs environment
this way.

Anyway, this is OT in this thread and we probably shouldn't pollute it
with this discussion.

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