Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:43:02AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Quietness on success has some significant advantages to justify not
> > disabling it
>
> Is quietness of success actually intended to be a default property of
> systemd? If a lot of distributions default to adding the quiet kernel
> boot parameter then maybe, but I don't know if that is the case, and
> systemd does not do quiet on success without it, which argues that it
> may not be the intended upstream default behavior.
As I understand it, systemd is intended to match the kernel's noisiness
or quietness, since only the kernel and systemd print to the console
during boot time. If the kernel is already being chatty on bootup,
systemd does the same. If the kernel is being quit and only printing
errors, systemd does the same.
That's a conversation worth having with upstream, though, in the course
of proposing a "start printing after a delay" option.
And yes, most user-friendly distributions seem to use "quiet" by
default, to make bootup quieter in the normal all's-well case.
- Josh Triplett
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