Comment 72 for bug 556372

I still don't understand what the _technical_ reason is not to switch to Recommends: rather than Depends: as it is now. If plymouth would be "recommended" only - nothing would change, since "Install-Recommends" is on by default and everything would just continue to work. But the sysadmin is free to uninstall plymouth, w/o going through these hoops of custom mountall packages and equivs dummy packages. Plymouth is out for...some years now and it's still hindering proper boot-related debugging now and then and it's still uneccesary for headless systems.

Please explain why plymouth cannot be set to "Recommended" to the affected packages (mountall, cyrptsetup, ...). Thanks.