[Splashy-devel] /proc/cmdline

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:17:01 -0300
Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> 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

If everybody thinks otherwise, I'm not going to making a fuss about it,
but I disagree. If somebody installs splashy, she wants it to work. Why
would she have to do another step? If for some reason splashy breaks
booting, then one can still add nosplash (or single) to the cmdline from 
within lilo or grub to disable splashy. 

I think 'nosplash' instead of splash gives the best user experience:
just 'aptitude install splashy', and be done with it...

grts Tim