[Bug 1976352] Re: The plymouth label plugin pulls in too many dependencies

[Steve Langasek]

Just a note, pango is indispensable for any dynamic strings in languages
such as Thai or Lao that require character composition; or for languages
that mix RTL and LTR text (such as Arabic or Hebrew with embedded Latin
filenames).  This may save us some space now in Ubuntu Core, but are we
going to find ourselves right back where we started in 2 years when we
need support for such languages?

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Title:
  The plymouth label plugin pulls in too many dependencies

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The plymouth label plugin pulls in too many dependencies (libpango,
  libcairo, X libs, etc.). This is an issue for integration in the
  initramfs.

  There is an alternative plugin (label-ft) that has been proposed upstream:
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/merge_requests/91
  As it is a separate plugin, core parts of plymouth are only slightly changed.

  The package built for kinetic can be found here:
  https://launchpad.net/~alfonsosanchezbeato/+archive/ubuntu/plymouth

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