Hi,
Perhaps the dev team can clarify your question.
The arch wiki has good documentation.
Haven’t seen anything regarding this for awhile. I’ve been testing it out since last year with out any problems so far. Is Manjaro going to stick with mkinitcpio?
i’m with you. can anyone from the @Manjaro-Team explain the reason why to change to dracut ? what are the pro’s and con’s ?
While waiting for an answer, you can read up EOS-wiki, as they are using it as default since 2022.
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Why wouldn’t we? Did anyone say anything otherwise?
I’m not sure I understand your question. What change?
It’s pretty clear in the first post that the goal was to…
…and nothing else.
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- Redacted… Manjaro’s tools hardcode mkinitcpio dependencies - so there would be a LOT of refactoring.
- mkinitcpio was previously unmaintained, but is now actively maintained - but upstream dracut is described as mostly unmaintained…
- Arch users are accustomed to mkinitcpio
- Dracut’s intitramfs size can end up larger (e.g. with Nvidia) negating some of the perceived advantages.
- mkinitcpio works reliably for standard installations - so the effort required to switch is not necessarily justified.
No benefit to me that I can imagine right now… but good reason for resistance given the potential effort and drawbacks it would entail.
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If manjaro tools have hardcode mkinitcpio dependancies, why is it possible to switch completely to dracut without problems?
Looking at the dracut github page linked from what I see in Octopi, it does not look like it’s mostly unmaintained, looks pretty actively maintained.
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What tools? Any package providing initramfs should work; i.e., mkinitcpio, dracut or booster.
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Sorry it was my misunderstanding. For some reason I thought Manjaro was considering switching.
Hello, what is the current status of this project?
That is unchanged. Necro-Bumping is not welcome.
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