Why does mkinitrd require plymouth?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 28 18:05:30 UTC 2009
Steve Grubb wrote:
> why does mkinitrd require plymouth? There are different aims to adjust package
> dependencies for security or minimal installation reasons. For example:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Server
>
> We would like to eliminate several packages from the minimal install.
>
> # rpm -e libpng
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libpng12.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> plymouth-libs-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386
> libpng12.so.0 is needed by (installed)
> plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386
> libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) is needed by (installed)
> plymouth-libs-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386
> [root at dhcp-lab-116 init.d]# rpm -e plymouth
> error: Failed dependencies:
> plymouth >= 0.6.0-0.2008.09.10.1 is needed by (installed)
> mkinitrd-6.0.71-3.fc10.i386
>
> Can we have mkinitrd to optionally use plymouth? If its there, build it in to
> the initrd. Otherwise let a server boot in text mode since it doesn't have a
> video display on it?
Plymouth is what provides the boot log as well.
Rahul
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