New comment by jacobmyers-codeninja on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/38515#issuecomment-1209674332 Comment: It doesn't have a hard dependency on plymouth. If it is present it will behave in a way to work nicely with it, but if it is not available it will just default to printing directly to the terminal. This is the configuration I am using as I do not actually have plymouth installed on this test machine.