Why does mkinitrd require plymouth?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> why does mkinitrd require plymouth? There are different aims to adjust package 
> dependencies for security or minimal installation reasons. For example:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Server
> 
> 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 at 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 what provides the boot log as well.

Rahul