Why does mkinitrd require plymouth?

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 01:03:38 pm Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> > why does mkinitrd require plymouth? There are different aims to
> > adjust package dependencies for security or minimal installation
> > reasons. For example:
>
> As far as I have understood it, plymouth will be put into the initrd
> to allow a switch into a graphical mode as early as possible.

Yeah, but servers never enter run level 5. We would like to remove this 
dependency chain if at all possible.

-Steve