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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml b/sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..22a2251f --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-boot/plymouth/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Matthew Thode</name> + </maintainer> + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>eva@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Gilles Dartiguelongue</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> |