Hi, We're considering dropping media-gfx/bootsplash from portage. bootsplash (the kernel patch which gives you pretty background images on your framebuffer console) has an ugly design, and hasn't been developed for a while, but was kept up-to-date with new kernel releases, until 1 year ago.
spock develops fbsplash, which is a much nicer implementation of the same concept, and actually works on kernels released within the last year :) http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/ This would also involve removing media-gfx/bootsplash-themes-livecd (newer fbsplash livecd themes are kept in media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd), and we'd probably rename bootsplash-themes to splash-themes (bootsplash-themes works with both bootsplash and fbsplash, so no need to drop it). Any comments? Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
