Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El lun, 28-01-2013 a las 00:25 +0100, Alex Legler escribió:
> On 27.01.2013 23:06, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > With spock retirement, splashutils became orphan. The problem is that it
> > has a lot of unresolved bugs for a long time:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=splashutils&list_id=1521218
> > 
> > that would need someone with more knowledge about it to maintain it (as
> > I don't have splash on my systems for years).
> > 
> > Also looks like splashutils is no more developed, but I don't know if we
> > have a proper replacement for it in gentoo (most distributions are
> > moving to plymouth, but I haven't tried if it works ok on Gentoo)
> 
> We have it, it works (or at least worked). Someone would need to
> implement it in genkernel initrds though as at the moment only dracut
> can handle it.
> 
> In terms of package maintenance, I took the package from aidecoe when he
> dropped it to avoid it getting removed. People seem to have found issues
> in there now and it could use a bump. As I cannot boot my systems using
> dracut initrds right now, feel free to take the package (and the openrc
> plugin for it) and fix/bump/do whatever with it.
> 

Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is
Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (but
not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility
Gentoo :/)


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