[Bug 819802] Re: Please refactor plymouth to remove the libdrm2 dependency when text themes are used

[Steve Langasek]

Correct in principle, awkward to implement in practice.  Should
definitely be discussed with upstream.

It looks to me like all four of the drm drivers combined add up to 476KB
installed.  Is this actually significant for Ubuntu Core in practice?

Currently ubuntu-core images are only built for armel.  As a first pass,
would it be a good idea to evaluate whether some of these DRM backends
should be dropped for armel?  E.g., does it ever make sense to build
libdrm-intel1 for the armel architecture?

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  Please refactor plymouth to remove the libdrm2 dependency when text
  themes are used

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu Core image contains libdrm2 and various implementations of
  userspace interfaces for specific DRI modules, which may not match
  hardware on target systems, especially for users intending not to
  provide any graphical interface (often including no graphical
  console).  This significantly increases the size of the image, without
  direct benefit to the user.

  plymouth should detect when the theme requires the direct rendering
  interface, and only load the appropriate DRM implementations at that
  time.  The theme packages should depend on any required interfaces,
  and the plymouth package not require any DRM implementation when using
  text themes.

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