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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:00:13 -0500
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is splash in GENERIC?
Message-ID:  <3C2E914D.8D155898@glue.umd.edu>
References:  <3C2D1E15.A0227235@glue.umd.edu> <1009592372.30665.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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Joe Clarke wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 20:36, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > I noticed the thread a little while ago about shrinking the kernel to
> > get it on the release floppies (was that here or on hackers?) and splash
> > seems like a good candidate for the chopping block. AFAICT it's not
> > required if you don't want a splash screen and the install disks aren't
> > set up for a default splash screen. I just tried making a kernel without
> > splash and it seems to work fine, in fact I'm writing this email on the
> > same machine. Of course, I've only been running this kernel for a few
> > minutes so I guess something bad could crop up. Is there any reason its
> > included in GENERIC?
> 
> It also is required for console screen savers, I believe.  You should
> have no problems if you remove it from your kernel conf.  However, you
> won't be able to display console screen savers.  Checkout man 4 splash.

I don't have any console screen savers configured so that explains why I
haven't noticed any problems. Thanks.

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