Hi All, I'm revisiting this thread to clarify the current situation Arch is in, regarding the initramfs.
When this was suggested, mkinitcpio was without a maintainer, and dracut was the obvious choice for replacement. In the almost two years this has been proposed though, I have maintained mkinitcpio, it has gained features and had bug fixes over this time, as well as it has seen a lot of activity from the community on github (issues and PR's). In this meantime, dracut as well got a number of releases and the dracut package is maintained, but dracut doesn't have alpm hooks to install the kernels to /boot and re-generate the images, mainly because there's no mkinitcpio profile equivalent Also, Anatol has created booster, which is extremely fast and creates very small images. Currently, you can have all 3 of them, mkinitcpio, dracut and booster installed on your system at the same time. booster does come with alpm hooks and it's currently doubling the work mkinitcpio hooks do, so the kernel gets copied to /boot twice. I plan to separate the mkinitcpio hooks and have all 3 initramfs generators to use the same hook, that way we can avoid them competing with each other, while also allowing them all to be installed at the same time. Having said all that, there are no plans at this time to change the status quo, so mkinitcpio remains the default, but users now have 3 options, which is always good. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini
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