Comment 20 for bug 556372

If plymouth is really needd and actually doing something useful besides providing fancy booting, then its package desciption should be changed to something more verbose (a bug against plymouth should be filed, I guess). However, when following the package page for plymouth I eventually end up on the freedesktop.org page where it's all about graphics and splashes.

But again, as Ubuntu is still shipping -server flavours, I fail to see the point why any package from the x11 section would be of priority "required". Why can't it be a dependency for "ubuntu-desktop", as in: I want a desktop system, with fancy bootup and so on. It's enough of a burden for all the headless admin (hihi) out there fiddling with bootparams to get to see exactly when the box stopped booting when something has gone wrong.