Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early

[Daniel Dalton]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:45:35PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > To achieve this I tried to disable plymouth. After a bit of research
> > best solution was just to remove the plymouth* scripts from /etc/init.d
> > (I've backed them up of course). 
> 
> Couldn't one just uninstall (as in apt-get remove) the plymouth
> packages.

No, because there are way to many dependencies, which is pretty silly for a graphical boot splash package.