From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqfWt-00016c-CK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:11:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67NAruo004973; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:10:53 GMT Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67N8dXH031054 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:08:39 GMT Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050707230842.CZLV889.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:08:42 +0100 Received: from zog.reactivated.net ([81.99.81.161]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050707230842.FZKR4721.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@zog.reactivated.net> for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:08:42 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsd [192.168.0.2]) by zog.reactivated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7337B8F75 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:31:46 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42CDB690.3000905@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:11:12 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050403) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Dropping bootsplash & friends from portage X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 396307ab-9c1c-4790-9525-fbf9c959b1d1 X-Archives-Hash: f32f2c1e3894afe169a7734118b13be9 Hi, We're considering dropping media-gfx/bootsplash from portage. bootsplash (the kernel patch which gives you pretty background images on your framebuffer console) has an ugly design, and hasn't been developed for a while, but was kept up-to-date with new kernel releases, until 1 year ago. spock develops fbsplash, which is a much nicer implementation of the same concept, and actually works on kernels released within the last year :) http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/ This would also involve removing media-gfx/bootsplash-themes-livecd (newer fbsplash livecd themes are kept in media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd), and we'd probably rename bootsplash-themes to splash-themes (bootsplash-themes works with both bootsplash and fbsplash, so no need to drop it). Any comments? Daniel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list