Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default
On 01/03/2014 09:23 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> It would be good to know, if plymouth handles such situations
> gracefully.
there is no problem with plymouth on systems that do not have a display
attached.
on systems that only support text modes, the text plugin is used
(package plymouth with ~100kb size, installed size ~500kb; depends on
libc and initramfs-tools only).
on systems that support graphical output, a graphical theme can be used
(requires package plymouth-drm with ~500kb size, installed size ~800kb;
depends on cairo, libdrm, libglib, libkms, pango, libpng, fontconfig and
ttf-dejavu-core).
on systems that support graphical output but are incompatible (i.e. when
the installed version of the kernel/libdrm doesn't support bleeding edge
nvidia or ati cards yet), plymouth falls back to the text plugin
automatically.
NB: most of the plymouth-drm depends are already included in the default
amd64/i386 desktop package selections and the plymouth 'debian' theme is
part of the monolithic desktop-base package.
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