closes 1017498
severity 1017498 wishlist
tags 1017498 + wontfix
thanks
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 04:31:05 +0200 (CEST) truetec...@tutanota.com wrote:
> When manually setting up an alternative init system such as OpenRC in
Debian, the Plymouth boot splash cannot be used as the plymouth package
has a hard dependency on SystemD. However, Plymouth can be configured to
work without it either way as seen in Devuan.
>
> It might be that this requires a change in how the package is
compiled, though I am not knowledgeable on the subject. However, seeing
as other packages such as DBus are provided with separate non-Systemd
variants, so there is precedent for that.
>
> I know that Systemd is the only officially supported init on Debian,
but would it be possible to make this package usable on all systems?
Aside from the eye-candy, it can make entering encryption passwords more
legible.
The fact that systemd is pulled by the plymouth package doesn't mean you
cannot use it with an other initsystem on debian, the package that
actually changes the default initsystem is "systemd-sysv", not "systemd"
Removing the dependency might break plymouth at it requires some udev
rules files that are shipped by the systemd package (the rules are used
to tag the framebuffer devices/heads installed on the machines).
I'm not planning to put extra work for this here.
