Bug 379403

Summary:	plymouth-kcm uses presence of update-alternatives to detect Ubuntu
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Fabian Vogt <fabian>
Component:	kcm_plymouth	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	leszek.lesner, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Fabian Vogt 2017-05-01 11:25:16 UTC

$SUBJ can't possibly work, other distributions (like openSUSE) use it as well.

There should also be a way to override the command for regenerating the initrd using a CMake variable.

Comment 1 Leszek Lesner 2017-05-23 11:39:03 UTC

Yeah that detection is a bit poor. 
I guess OpenSUSE does not use update-alternatives for setting a default.plymouth. 

As I had a nother issue on ubuntu/debian with update-alternatives I added this patch that checks with update-alternatives --list default.plymouth if the plymouth theme is already registered with alternatives system or not. 
I think this could be used (if it fails on opensuse as it should if there is no default.plymouth) to skip the rest of the stuff. 

https://phabricator.kde.org/D5942

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2019-08-01 15:14:36 UTC

That patch landed years ago; marking as fixed.