El lun, 28-01-2013 a las 00:25 +0100, Alex Legler escribió: > On 27.01.2013 23:06, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > With spock retirement, splashutils became orphan. The problem is that it > > has a lot of unresolved bugs for a long time: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=splashutils&list_id=1521218 > > > > that would need someone with more knowledge about it to maintain it (as > > I don't have splash on my systems for years). > > > > Also looks like splashutils is no more developed, but I don't know if we > > have a proper replacement for it in gentoo (most distributions are > > moving to plymouth, but I haven't tried if it works ok on Gentoo) > > We have it, it works (or at least worked). Someone would need to > implement it in genkernel initrds though as at the moment only dracut > can handle it. > > In terms of package maintenance, I took the package from aidecoe when he > dropped it to avoid it getting removed. People seem to have found issues > in there now and it could use a bump. As I cannot boot my systems using > dracut initrds right now, feel free to take the package (and the openrc > plugin for it) and fix/bump/do whatever with it. >
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 :/)
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