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From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:24:46
Message-Id: 510D67D7.4060100@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer by Pacho Ramos
1 On 2/2/2013 13:19, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 15:55 +0400, Sergey Popov escribió:
3 >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos пишет:
4 >>> Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is
5 >>> Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (but
6 >>> not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility
7 >>> Gentoo :/)
8 >>
9 >> We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see
10 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430478).
11 >>
12 >
13 > Could anyone summarize the advantages of splashutils over plymouth? As
14 > both look to be needed of some love in Gentoo, maybe would be better to
15 > focus on later one (that is the preferred option in most distributions
16 > and is actively developed)
17 >
18 As a user, I can say that one advantage of splashutils over plymouth is
19 that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked
20 on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual
21 machine).
22
23 --
24 ♫Dustin

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Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>