Jeff Johnson wrote:

>> Can anyone explain to me why this macro is "initrddir" when
>> /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d have absolutely nothing  
>> whatsoever to
>> do with the initial RAM disk?  Shouldn't it be "initdir?"
>>
> Hysterical accident is what my bleached neurons remember.
>
> Either Mandriva or PLD was the first to try to use a macro for init
> scripts directories in packaging. The rest is conventional comedies  
> with predicatble
> punch lines and canned laughter.

It was Mandriva, says the changelog:
http://rpm5.org/cvs/filediff?f=rpm/platform.in&v1=2.6&v2=2.7

Couldn't find their original changelog,
seems like it was reset at 2005 or so ?

--anders