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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:27:08
Message-Id: 1359401212.2927.46.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer by Alex Legler
1 El lun, 28-01-2013 a las 00:25 +0100, Alex Legler escribió:
2 > On 27.01.2013 23:06, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > With spock retirement, splashutils became orphan. The problem is that it
4 > > has a lot of unresolved bugs for a long time:
5 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=splashutils&list_id=1521218
6 > >
7 > > that would need someone with more knowledge about it to maintain it (as
8 > > I don't have splash on my systems for years).
9 > >
10 > > Also looks like splashutils is no more developed, but I don't know if we
11 > > have a proper replacement for it in gentoo (most distributions are
12 > > moving to plymouth, but I haven't tried if it works ok on Gentoo)
13 >
14 > We have it, it works (or at least worked). Someone would need to
15 > implement it in genkernel initrds though as at the moment only dracut
16 > can handle it.
17 >
18 > In terms of package maintenance, I took the package from aidecoe when he
19 > dropped it to avoid it getting removed. People seem to have found issues
20 > in there now and it could use a bump. As I cannot boot my systems using
21 > dracut initrds right now, feel free to take the package (and the openrc
22 > plugin for it) and fix/bump/do whatever with it.
23 >
24
25 Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is
26 Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (but
27 not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility
28 Gentoo :/)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>