Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default
If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that
the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most
kernel messages and systemd messages.
Apart from that, I'd echo a frequent description I've seen of splash
screens: "a splash screen exists so that while you're waiting on the
program you actually wanted, you know who to blame for it not running
yet".
Plymouth makes booting slower for the sake of showing an image and
hiding messages. We can optionally hide messages without needing a
splash screen, and we should aim to boot so fast that a splash screen
would simply be an unnecessary flicker.
- Josh Triplett
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