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Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default



On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 14:59 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Severity: wishlist
> > X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré requested to have
> > plymouth installed by default.
> 
> Not all systems supported by Debian even have graphical displays, so
> it hardly seems like something that would even work on all systems,
> and certainly doesn't sound like it ought to be the default to include.
> Sounds like useless bloat to me.
[...]

I believe plymouth supports both text and graphical modes.  The default
should probably be set based on whether task-desktop (or alternate) is
installed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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