Comment 10 for bug 427356

On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:49 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:

> Oh, fair point - so we can start usplash from the root filesystem if
> needed for fsck prompting? Does this work already today, and if not, is
> this converging on schedule for release?
>
It's on schedule for release.

> In some cases, cryptsetup will be installed on systems that aren't using
> crypted root; so having cryptsetup ship a file under /etc/initramfs-
> tools/conf.d turning on usplash will cause usplash to be used in some
> initramfses where it's not needed (and possibly even some systems where
> no prompting is required). Is that acceptable, or do you have some
> other plan for how usplash will be selected?
>
I don't think it's a bad thing. If you have cryptsetup installed, one
file system or another is bound to be encrypted so you're getting
usplash anyway.

If you have it installed but no encrypted fs, it's a simple fix to get
rid of usplash.

Scott
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