From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev+bounces-58155-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D026138809 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 00:05:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6ECB221C006; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 00:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75A5521C001 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 00:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B35F20AB1 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:05:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from web6.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.216]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:05:34 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=letterboxes.org; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh= QV98ymM/uSxq392OnltjqvNQBhI=; b=rwxA6jVDPl5Vd2YfUi6BRd8txTGPvuLI oShkyCKAUrVpyFxd0gHNI8OeXaK0PoFOHleHpGmMJIOrxjCnAYcGGBvKFpc+Enz4 LSM5FTPodeJQ+Ygmhx+hHK7+1PKMACx4UsLz3PmGjFfzfYL/jHPhi+yuXhIJJiBR oQVbPHyO45I= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=QV98ymM/uSxq392OnltjqvNQBhI=; b=DjA Dxdt4gAdesWFnUKJ41n6NvHdLVQQ+UK5eLPFrUB88QWAWMbBl6B4Zamolok1IAG6 4BIXi3JNs7mDLsFxLJglWTbpYyPe1xT1pV7lSy944tfjqJhUFArEHulGRBHzNRli E9QlLf1lrLf3fvP6PnCVKPoalPVZxp/4diZMy1rQ= Received: by web6.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id C4CFA22295; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:05:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1359849933.10606.140661186052849.7D23BAD6@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: vwkv6955NqBCFzFKcjA+XInwFK5+EqG9kDy59yp5mej/ 1359849933 From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-1ec1891e In-Reply-To: <510D67D7.4060100@gmail.com> References: <1359324395.2927.43.camel@belkin4> <5105B778.9080004@gentoo.org> <1359401212.2927.46.camel@belkin4> <5107B8C7.2020507@gentoo.org> <1359832788.26423.58.camel@belkin4> <510D67D7.4060100@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:05:33 -0500 X-Archives-Salt: 246f82d2-7fb9-42d9-a1cb-81252a0b6832 X-Archives-Hash: 46cccc5528eeeadb0a6a3db28cc9958c On Sat, Feb 2, 2013, at 02:24 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 2/2/2013 13:19, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 15:55 +0400, Sergey Popov escribi=C3=B3: > >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > >>> Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is > >>> Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (b= ut > >>> not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility > >>> Gentoo :/) > >> > >> We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D430478). > >> > > > > Could anyone summarize the advantages of splashutils over plymouth? As > > both look to be needed of some love in Gentoo, maybe would be better to > > focus on later one (that is the preferred option in most distributions > > and is actively developed) > > > As a user, I can say that one advantage of splashutils over plymouth is= =20 > that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked= =20 > on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual=20 > machine). IIRC plymouth requires KMS so if your driver doesn't have KMS support then it doesn't have plymouth support.