On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:35:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > >> Don't forget boot-time X-based animation, too. That's an > >> extraordinarily common feature of mainstream desktop distributions. > >> And there will be other things, I'm sure. > > > > I don't get involved with those, but I'd hope something intended to be > > run so early would have minimal dependencies, if any. > > There's a pretty firm distinction between what things get used for, > and what they're intended for. The udev developers presumably were > reacting to this when they decided to support an "anything goes" > policy regarding plugscript behavior. > > And while I'm generally the kind of person to find unintended (but > perfectly compatible with their spec) uses for things, I don't figure > on being one to do so in my init sequence. That said, someone else > will.
I know what you mean, but here we are discussing something being used for its intended purpose. If a bootsplash program is not designed to work well a the start of the boot process, you have to wonder what it will be good for. -- Neil Bothwick Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
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