[Bug 556372] Re: Please remove the plymouth dependency from mountall / cryptsetup

[chalom]

We are in 2013, and this problem (which is not exactly a bug, more a
refusal of the developers to provide a decent answer) is still open and
unchanged. I am very disappointed that the developers will not listen to
dozens of users here and change one dependency. We are not asking you to
drop plymouth from the repositories. We are not asking to drop plymouth
from the default installation. We are simply stating that a
"recommended" package shoult NOT be a dependency for a "required"
package. The lack of answer from the development team is childish and
disapointing. You are just deterring the users from customizing their
own setup and encouraging users to change distributions, congratulations
to you all.

Thanks ingo, christiank and the others for the workarounds. I think I'll
stick with "change to Debian".

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Title:
  Please remove the plymouth dependency from mountall / cryptsetup

Status in cryptsetup:
  Confirmed
Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  I noticed that mountall (and cryptsetup) depends on plymouth now.
  Whatever plymouth is doing or not doing, my headless system is booting
  fine without plymouth (dpkg --force-depends -P plymouth), yet all
  disks (local, NFS) are mounted and cryptsetup is setting up encrypted
  swap as it used to.

  IMHO the "Depends: plymouth" is too hard and should be replaced with
  "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for the following reasons:

  - Headless systems won't ever see what plymouth is doing ("graphical boot animation")
  - Plymouth itself depends on quite a few libraries (libdrm-*), unnecessarily adding code to the installation- Mountall is of "Priority: required" while plymouth is "optional". The "Depends:" makes plymouth essentially "required" as well and cannot be uninstalled w/o --force options.

  Please reconsider this dependency.

  # lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
  Release:        10.04
  Codename:       lucid

  # dpkg -l | egrep 'mountall|cryptsetup' | cut -c1-90
  ii  cryptsetup                                              2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu13         
  ii  mountall                                                2.10 

  # apt-cache show plymouth | egrep 'Vers|Depe'
  Version: 0.8.1-4ubuntu1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libdrm-intel1 (>= 2.4.9), libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~), libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.17), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libplymouth2 (= 0.8.1-4ubuntu1), upstart-job, udev (>= 149-2), mountall (>= 2.0)

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