[Splashy-devel] /proc/cmdline

[Otavio Salvador]

Tim Dijkstra <newsuser at famdijkstra.org> writes:

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:54:14 -0400
> Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>> Well, think about it from this point of view:
>> 
>> you have Splashy (package) installed and you want to use vga= (say, to
>> make your console look nicer) and you don't want boot into single user
>> mode to disable Splashy because you ran into some problem and you need
>> to read the console messages. "splash" in the kernel param solves this
>> problem nicely.
>
> Why don't we make it 'nosplash'? That way people that want to disable
> it temporarily can do so, but people that want to use splashy can just 
> install the package and be done with it.

I think that default should be do nothing extra so makes more sense to
include a param to enable it. e.g. splash

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