On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Thanks for this hint, I hadn't thought about it. > It would be good to know, if plymouth handles such situations > gracefully. I CC'ed Daniel Baumann, the maintainer of plymouth, so > that he can answer this question. > > I'd call it a feature, but if you don't like it, you still could remove it.
I like the fact a debian base system by default is a working base system, with no useless junk for me to have to remove later. Perhaps if I slected 'graphical desktop' in the task selector, then it could be considered, but as part of the default base system, no way. > It hides all the 'strange' boot messages, that 'novices' are not > accustomed to and instead presents a nice image. And how does one get accustomed to useful stuff if it is hidden? They are not scary. Back in the DOS days, no one seemed to have any issue using a computer with strange messages while starting. I think it is a bad idea to assume new users are idiots that would be scared of stuff they haven't seen before. They are trying something other than Windows after all, so they clearly must be interesting in trying out new stuff. > Probably it makes booting slower, because it has to load the > background image. I haven't seen any noticeable speed difference, > but I haven't measured it exactly. Well making it slower would certainly be a reason not to include it. If it actually made it faster, that would be something. > Nonetheless I value your opinion. I should add, that I'm also > neither DD nor DM. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140103203752.gl17...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
