From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3E4138802 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:24:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAF7421C02B; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f171.google.com (mail-ob0-f171.google.com [209.85.214.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C7F721C022 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f171.google.com with SMTP id lz20so5162749obb.2 for ; Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:24:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CdHk8nDrh+4Bgo6QNoP/d+QBI7zy9FtJ0ApG05flITw=; b=BBKV047CinMsTLg02X6zoLj7CiK8yU9DxO0IJ4t60pQeX9nzY8V/JdDn81yl0etoDz MVMMyNN6EZwsxLfCoQiTbUa8wA79WgK7NjnfCprnes96MTnbgPLR+tvV9RK2TZS2dRth 84XJ64y3svSAKVbsLwuDAqsXXKnakv4TwU39mAgSZXeR/t6VUd5oAwVdIQikL9IFfgVB qHUzq4/18qV2GtYyTfc0DH7dFsr6123mjatHP+chXT6WipdN/MC29nhtahmC4tYlqqkO BRvDbke3RXOpcFLytE+LvCs/YWC8zqRxuhM9twH048GfU3w6YlOlrXaZo6Y0pzybj9a8 klNw== X-Received: by 10.60.30.231 with SMTP id v7mr13247221oeh.22.1359833048766; Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.31.0.2] (cpe-75-87-85-32.kc.res.rr.com. [75.87.85.32]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o3sm14334112obk.13.2013.02.02.11.24.07 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:24:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <510D67D7.4060100@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:24:07 -0600 From: "Dustin C. Hatch" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer References: <1359324395.2927.43.camel@belkin4> <5105B778.9080004@gentoo.org> <1359401212.2927.46.camel@belkin4> <5107B8C7.2020507@gentoo.org> <1359832788.26423.58.camel@belkin4> In-Reply-To: <1359832788.26423.58.camel@belkin4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: ca40d10f-101f-43ae-a5e6-bf6b57e22555 X-Archives-Hash: 12f9ff36cae035bd409bffcde248aa0c On 2/2/2013 13:19, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 15:55 +0400, Sergey Popov escribió: >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos пишет: >>> 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 :/) >> >> We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430478). >> > > 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 that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual machine). -- ♫Dustin