Re: [PATCH 0/2] psplash fixes

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 12/21/2011 10:15 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2011 10:31:52 Philip Balister wrote:
>> I can see people taking an existing image, adding a few packages to
>> customize it for their application, and changing the splash image to a
>> product specific one.
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced this workflow makes sense when you're interested in 
> getting reproducible product images. This is basically the "take some existing 
> distro and hack it up until it fits" approach which taken past a certain point 
> leads to an unmaintainable mess, or at the very least regressions.
> 
> People really ought to be able to produce their final images from the metadata 
> with no additional post-build changes (or at least none that are manual). If 
> that's too difficult, that's the problem I think is most worthwhile to attack, 
> even if it requires more work on our part.

Well, I can see people wanting to do this. It falls into the case of the
customer is always right, even when he is wrong :)

Philip