Hello Laurent & Aurélien, On Fri, 06 Jan 2017, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > So what would you think of making an alternative of : > > /usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults > > currently shipped by plymouth ? > > > > This would let desktop-base override the version currently shipped by > > plymouth, without the need for plymouth to add a dependency on desktop-base. > > I'm not sure I would use the alternative for the > /usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults file.
Unless plymouth grows some other mechanism to override only the theme, I think it makes a lot of sense... right now plymouth gets installed by default through desktop-base and there's no good way for a derivative to override that theme. For now we added a call to "plymouth-set-default-theme" in desktop-base but that modifies a conffile... > Ubuntu is doing something with /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth, > I would go that way maybe (see > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/plymouth.git/tree/src/main.c#n449). I believe overriding/diverting the default theme is not sufficient since a theme is now hardcoded in /usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults (as shipped by plymouth). It would be really nice to a have a proper endorsed solution to this for derivatives. Up to now, all our theme overrides are made through desktop-base without modifying anything else, it would be nice if this could be the case for plymouth as well. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
