Re: Why does mkinitrd require plymouth?
Hi,
We would like to eliminate several packages from the minimal
install.
# rpm -e libpng
error: Failed dependencies:
libpng12.so.0 is needed by (installed)
plymouth-libs-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386
libpng12.so.0 is needed by (installed)
plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386
libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) is needed by (installed)
plymouth-libs-0.6.0-0.2008.11.17.3.fc10.i386
[root@dhcp-lab-116 init.d]# rpm -e plymouth
error: Failed dependencies:
plymouth >= 0.6.0-0.2008.09.10.1 is needed by (installed)
mkinitrd-6.0.71-3.fc10.i386
Can we have mkinitrd to optionally use plymouth? If its there, build it in to
the initrd. Otherwise let a server boot in text mode since it doesn't have a
video display on it?
Plymouth is a required part of the system. It's not just
graphical
boot, it's integral to text boot up, too (rc.sysinit hooks into it for
some reasons, it handles boot.log etc).
It could probably be made to not have a hard libpng dependency,
though. In fact, I thought I fixed this already for Lennart, but
maybe I'm misremembering. File a bug in bugzilla.
--Ray