Ubuntu
mountall package

  1. Bug #556372
  2. Comment #98

Comment 98 for bug 556372

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Christian Kujau (christiank) wrote : Re: [Bug 556372] Re: Please remove the plymouth dependency from mountall / cryptsetup

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 at 21:59, Steve Langasek wrote:
> This dependency:
> - is not a bug in plymouth.

Well, no, but it's a bug in packages like mountall an cryptsetup which
DEPEND on plymouth - that's the whole point of this bug.

> - is not up for debate.

Oh? Why so?

> You do not have a properly functioning system if you have purged
> plymouth. You have a system that will fall on its face and fail to boot
> with no recovery options if there is ever any problem with any of the
> filesystems listed in /etc/fstab.

Booting with "init=/bin/sh" is sufficient for a recovery system, I don't
need plymouth for that. More to the point, relying on even more software
for a recovery system makes no sense - if the system is heavily damaged, I
should rely on as little software as possible to get it running again. A
kernel and a working shell would be sufficient. With plymouth and its
dependency tree this cannot be guaranteed.