[oe] RFC: Sane default for SPLASH

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Thu Jan 14 14:12:24 UTC 2010


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On 14-01-10 14:52, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2010, 10:14 +0100 schrieb Koen Kooi:
>> NAK, the needless SPLASH -> BOOTSPLASH will create too much work for
>> people to catch up to, and it messes up the docs on the subject.
> 
> Could you expand on that reason? I find the patch quite a useful
> refactoring. If we don't allow patches like this going in, we're
> doomed into living with misnomers forever -- and we all know that
> there are quite a few in OE metadata.

If you want to fix such misnomers it needs to be done with more thought
and publicity to allow external repos to catch up. No need to stab
people in the eye to make 2 people feel better.
And FWIW, psplash runs at shutdown as well, so it isn't really a
bootsplash ;)

regards,

Koen
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