On 2020-06-02, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2020-06-02, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> On May 10, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I see xz-compressed modules are supported, which is definitely useful,
>>> but gzip compressed modules are also widely used, and have different CPU
>>> vs. storage space tradeoffs.
>> No. This was already discussed in #952590, I do not want to add another 
>> dependency to the initramfs.
>
> And as said in that bug report as well, libz and numerous other
> compression libraries are already added with a default initramfs-tools.
>
> $ lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-2-arm64 | grep -E 'libz|liblz'
> usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1
...
> usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1
> usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11
...
> Your argument that only if it uses plymouth doesn't appear to be
> correct:
>
> $ dpkg -l '*plymouth*'
> dpkg-query: no packages found matching *plymouth*

Though after checking on a more minimal system, something other than
plymouth was probably pulling those in... hrm.


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  vagrant

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