[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#718038: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Joey,

On 20.01.2014 16:28, Joey Hess wrote:
> Josh Triplett wrote:
>> If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that
>> the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most
>> kernel messages and systemd messages.
>
> Note that the hiding of systemd messages is unintentional, and can make
> debugging a system that fails to boot challanging. #718038
>
> I asked the systemd maintainers to not make it overload quiet to do
> that, but they don't want to, so if systemd continues being used in
> Debian (even if not as default), d-i will need to start adding
> systemd.show_status=1 to the kernel command line.

I just noticed, that when using plymouth and pressing <Esc> to see the 
boot messeges, the systemd messages are shown (in spite of the 'quiet' 
boot option), but without plymouth they are not shown.
This is weird...

Best regards,
Andreas