[DEP-BLOAT] 'mkinitrd' ships 'nash' and requires lot of low-level stuff

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Aug 29 15:09:58 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:14 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:

> $ grep nash /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> killall nash-hotplug >/dev/null 2>&1

This doesn't cause a dependency on nash.

> echo "raidautorun /dev/md0" | nash --quiet

Is this even needed?

> echo "mkdmnod" | /sbin/nash --quiet >/dev/null 2>&1

This can be replaced by 2 lines of shell.  I'll fix that.

> >> Therefore, they should be packaged separately.

This is a bad premise.  We should make initscripts not depend on it, not
split the package in more pieces.

-- 
  Peter




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