(SOLVED)Is it safe to remove plymouth?

[blaze]

Sparky minimal gui 4.5, upgraded to unstable. I have purged lightdm, and use startx instead. After todays d-u I got this;

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Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.125) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Have done apt  "--configure -a, install -f, autoremove", but still stuck at above output. When doing "sudo apt purge plymouth -s" I get this;

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libplymouth4 sparky-apt sparky-artwork sparky-grub-theme sparky-keyring
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  plymouth* plymouth-themes* sparky-core* sparky-plymouth*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Purg sparky-core [4-20160717]
Purg sparky-plymouth [0.1.2]
Purg plymouth-themes [0.9.2-3+b1]
Purg plymouth [0.9.2-3+b1]
Conf initramfs-tools (0.125 Debian:unstable [all])


Is it safe to remove plymouth? And more important, does it help?  :)

[paxmark1]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plymouth

https://wiki.debian.org/plymouth

Plymouth does  give you a graphical boot splash instead of those pesky messages from systemd.  (sarcasm)

On my lxqt sid install

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aptitude show plymouth
Package: plymouth                       
Version: 0.9.2-3+b1
New: yes
State: not installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc


It's your call. 

Edit:  Btw  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847343   ##  "apt full upgrade" yielded no problems with plymouth not present. 

[blaze]

Thanks for your  informative answer paxmark1, appreciate it. Done, rebooted and all ok. :)