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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml')
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diff --git a/sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml b/sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..094f65df04d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<herd>proxy-maintainers</herd> +<maintainer> + <email>enrico.tagliavini@gmail.com</email> + <name>Enrico Tagliavini</name> +</maintainer> + <use> + <flag name="gdm">Enables smooth transition to GDM</flag> + <flag name="libkms">Provides abstraction to the DRM drivers (intel, + nouveau and vmwgfx at this moment)</flag> + <flag name="pango">Adds support for printing text on splash screen and + text prompts, e.g. for password</flag> + </use> + <longdescription lang="en"> + Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process + (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical + boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. + + It is designed to work on systems with DRM modesetting drivers. Ideally, + the goal is to get rid of all flicker during startup. For systems that + don't have DRM mode settings drivers, plymouth falls back to text mode. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |