[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] initscripts: Add a splash support

Damir Perisa damir.perisa at solnet.ch
Sat Nov 3 12:56:20 EDT 2007


Saturday 03 November 2007, Andreas Radke wrote:
 | Am Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:48:05 +0200
 |
 | schrieb "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
 | > Hi!
 | >
 | > This patch finishes the work done by dtw and iphitus for
 | > bringing an optional splash support to default initscripts.
 | > It eliminates the need for separate initscripts-splash package
 | > which provides/conflicts=('initscripts').
 | >
 | > User has to install splashy or fbsplash which provide required
 | > mikinitcpio hooks and ${SPLASH}_wrapper script, and then use
 | > e.g. SPLASH="splashy" in rc.conf to enable it.
 |
 | -1 from me
 |
 | We are not focussed to be an eyecandy distribution. There's
 | already a usable solution. I dislike to have another possible
 | breaker in core.

-1 from me too

why is a separate initscripts-splash pkg a bad thing? for those who 
want to play with it, let them, but do not make the initscripts more 
complex as it should be.

- D


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