removing plymouth

[Fred Erickson]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:27:51 +0100
Balint Szigeti <balint.szgt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 13:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> > On 07/11/14 13:11, Balint Szigeti wrote:
> > > Can somebody tell me what would happen if I remove Plymouth
> > > packages? I know it handles the boot screen and the user
> > > interaction during boot. Does it mean, if I remove this package I
> > > can't examine what happened during the boot or I can not boot?
> > 
> > You'll be able to boot just fine.  You'll just see all the "OK"s
> > scrolling by as the various components are started.
> > 
> > Not sure what you're thinking the gain will be to remove it.
> > 
> > -- 
> > If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige.
> 
> $ systemd-analyze blame
>          10.661s systemd-cryptsetup at luks\x2d9ea31b69\x2d8769\x2d4bf1
> \x2d897d\x2d67ecf8d4b0be.service
>           9.862s plymouth-quit-wait.service
>           9.743s accounts-daemon.service
>           8.427s firewalld.service
> improving the boot time :)

$ systemd-analyze blame
         37.724s plymouth-quit-wait.service
         29.148s accounts-daemon.service
         27.960s firewalld.service
         27.861s avahi-daemon.service
         27.720s chronyd.service

Just to make you feel better about your system :)