Right now, plymouth is enabled or not based on what distro you're building systemd for. The plymouth should be configurable via a --with option instead, optionally with per-distro defaults. We're having plymouth support in Gentoo optional, and right now we need to pass `have_plymouth=true' to configure conditionally which we consider ugly.
This is now fixed in git.
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