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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013, at 02:24 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: |
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> On 2/2/2013 13:19, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 15:55 +0400, Sergey Popov escribió: |
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> >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos пишет: |
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> >>> Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is |
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> >>> Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (but |
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> >>> not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility |
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> >>> Gentoo :/) |
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> >> |
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> >> We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see |
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> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430478). |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > Could anyone summarize the advantages of splashutils over plymouth? As |
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> > both look to be needed of some love in Gentoo, maybe would be better to |
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> > focus on later one (that is the preferred option in most distributions |
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> > and is actively developed) |
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> > |
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> As a user, I can say that one advantage of splashutils over plymouth is |
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> that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked |
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> on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual |
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> machine). |
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IIRC plymouth requires KMS so if your driver doesn't have KMS support |
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then it doesn't have plymouth support. |
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