http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6273
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-13 17:17 ------- >> Mandatory installation(!) of any non-vital part of Mandrake GPL-ed download >> distribution You can always 'rpm -e --nodeps bootsplash' if you want. >> is something definitely worth to be discussed as well. Bugzilla is the wrong place, try cooker. >> I do not consider such >> a bit Orwellian thing to be "feature". How about the desktop backgrounds? Maybe you should request to have them removed too, and we can have a blank screen instead. We could remove the X patch too, so that instead of a blue background when starting X, we could have the more conventional black/white diagonal hatching and hurt our eyes looking at it until we log in. >> What additional _mandatory_ parts there >> are for Mandrake 9.2? Any list of them? Sure, just diff the output from 'urpmq -d basessytem|sort' and 'urpmq -d mandrake_desk|sort' You may find things like 'menu' and 'mdk-menu-messages' forced upon you. Actually, since the initscripts package actually calls the /sbin/splash binary, maybe initscripts should depend on bootsplash instead? Then we can have it on servers too ;-). -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: RESOLVED creation_date: description: Well it can be unmarked but the warning follows that almost all KDE, Gnome etc. is going to be excluded from installation as well. "The following packages are going to be removed" list is much longer than warning window can show (BTW this warning window is not scrollable, as anyone can see trying to unmark bootsplash, so you even canot see what else is NOT going to be installed... ;-) You might understand that not everyone wants to close boot screen text messages with some much less informative "bootsplash". If somebody wants to partially blind himself, that's OK for him... I don't want to. For me the easiest way NOT to see this bootsplash at all has been in 9.1 simply to not install it. Unmark during the installation. Now with 9.2 it seems impossible because simple unmarking of bootsplash in Graphical Environment -> KDE Workstation -> bootsplash seems to imply mandatory unmarking whole graphical interface set with it. Something is wrong with this. I want to get rid of bootsplash but still use KDE and whole lot of Graphic.
