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

[Daniel van Vugt]

Font rendering should, in theory, have zero dependencies on graphics
libraries. If you disable GPU-accelerated paths, which are probably
rare, then you're only left with the need to write bytes into a simple
pixel buffer.

No well-designed font rendering library should have any dependencies on
graphics libraries to achieve that. If they do then I would hope it's
just a matter of changing build flags.

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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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