Is it safe to yum remove plymouth from F-15 -

[Bob Goodwin]

I thought I would remove Plymouth since I don't use the graphic
        log-in but I'm not sure about the "dracut" it will take out.

Removing:
              plymouth                       x86_64              
            0.8.4-0.20110510.2.fc15               
            @koji-override-1/$releasever               201 k
            Removing for dependencies:
              dracut                         noarch              
            009-12.fc15                           
            @updates                                   430 k
              plymouth-scripts               x86_64              
            0.8.4-0.20110510.2.fc15               
            @koji-override-1/$releasever                11 k

Transaction Summary
            =============================================================================================================================================
            Remove        3 Package(s)

Installed size: 642 k

It looks like it is just one more app. slowing down my boot
        every morning but I don't want to cause new problems.

Can I remove it safely?

Bob

[Richard Hughes]

On 16 September 2011 17:52, Bob Goodwin  wrote:
> I thought I would remove Plymouth since I don't use the graphic
>        log-in but I'm not sure about the "dracut" it will take out.

Removing dracut isn't a good move if you ever want to upgrade the
kernel. You can remove the rhgb from the grub config file if you don't
want to use plymouth, although doing that won't actually save you much
boot time at all.

Richard.

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:52:26 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I thought I would remove Plymouth since I don't use the graphic
> log-in

Some things plymouth provides are good (like finally a boot.log
file), but the graphics are silly and just prevent you from
seeing what happened if your new kernel freezes on you during
boot. I simply edit out the "rhgb" parameter from the kernel
boot lines in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

[Bob Goodwin]

On 16/09/11 13:30, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 16 September 2011 17:52, Bob Goodwin  wrote:
> >     I thought I would remove Plymouth since I don't use the graphic
> >     log-in but I'm not sure about the "dracut" it will take out.
>
> Removing dracut isn't a good move if you ever want to upgrade the
> kernel. You can remove the rhgb from the grub config file if you don't
> want to use plymouth, although doing that won't actually save you much
> boot time at all.
>
> Richard.

No, rhgb, etc., is among the first things removed, I never see
        the graphic login screen. I did notice the boot process stumble
        over [plymouth the other morning and thought it might be
        something I could eliminate.

I will leave things alone then.

Thanks,

Bob

[Frank Murphy]

On 16/09/11 18:55, Bob Goodwin wrote:
<snipped>
>      No, rhgb, etc., is among the first things removed, I never see
>      the graphic login screen. I did notice the boot process stumble
>      over [plymouth the other morning and thought it might be
>      something I could eliminate.
>
>      I will leave things alone then.
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      Bob

For my own system F15.x86_64, I did a "yum erase plymouth*"
then "yum install dracut".
Which pulled back in 3 of the 7 plymouth pkgs.

I can not see any speed increase (not measured in any scientific way)

If only systemd, would let yum-updateonboot finish :(