Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-08 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 15:52 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > If you don't have plymouth installed, you get a very old-school "wall > > of text" boot process; > > I, for one, am for it. I _expect_ my servers to provide an

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-05 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/4/21 11:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 22:40 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> > >>> Starting from a minimal install with plymouth omitted, adding just > >>> plymouth itself pulls in 3 packages

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-05 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:27 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 03:52:04PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > If you don't have plymouth installed, you get a very old-school "wall > > > of text" boot process; if

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 03:52:04PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > If you don't have plymouth installed, you get a very old-school "wall > > of text" boot process; if there are encrypted system partitions, you > > get a plain text

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-05 Thread Oğuz Ersen via devel
Is changing the default theme from "text" to "details" an option? It is already there so there is no need to install another package and I think it is a better wall-of-text experience than removing plymouth altogether. -- Best Regards Oğuz Ersen ___

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-05 Thread Tomasz Torcz
Dnia Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Adam Williamson napisał(a): > Starting from a minimal install with plymouth omitted, adding just > plymouth itself pulls in 3 packages (plymouth, plymouth-core-libs, > plymouth-scripts) with an installed size of 621K. Adding plymouth- > system-theme

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-05 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 3/4/21 11:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 22:40 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >> >>> Starting from a minimal install with plymouth omitted, adding just >>> plymouth itself pulls in 3 packages (plymouth, plymouth-core-libs, >>> plymouth-scripts) with an installed size of

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 01:51 +0100, David Kaufmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 02:45:29PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Well, you could still argue it's prettier than a wall-o-text boot. And > > it *does* hide the wall-o-text. > > On the first boot after install that's maybe nice, but

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread David Kaufmann
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 02:45:29PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well, you could still argue it's prettier than a wall-o-text boot. And > it *does* hide the wall-o-text. On the first boot after install that's maybe nice, but usually when I look at the machine booting I either do need to see why

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 22:40 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > Starting from a minimal install with plymouth omitted, adding just > > plymouth itself pulls in 3 packages (plymouth, plymouth-core-libs, > > plymouth-scripts) with an installed size of 621K. Adding plymouth- > > system-theme pulls in

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey folks! > > So I've filed a bug recently which may need wider discussion about the > resolution. The bug report is: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378 > > The problem is this. If plymouth is installed but no

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 3/4/21 9:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey folks! > > So I've filed a bug recently which may need wider discussion about the > resolution. The bug report is: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378 > > The problem is this. If plymouth is installed but no graphical

Re: Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > If you don't have plymouth installed, you get a very old-school "wall > of text" boot process; if there are encrypted system partitions, you > get a plain text prompt for the encryption passphrase, with no keyboard > layout

Plymouth, themes and console clearing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378

2021-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
Hey folks! So I've filed a bug recently which may need wider discussion about the resolution. The bug report is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933378 The problem is this. If plymouth is installed but no graphical theme is installed/configured - which is currently the case for at