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

Jason Chu jason at archlinux.org
Sat Nov 3 13:04:34 EDT 2007


On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:48:05PM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 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 either do the work here (and it doesn't break anything for
the users who don't change a thing) or we have to fight with it later in a
different package that's nearly exactly the same as initscripts with only a
few changes.

Jason
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