Comment 19 for bug 849954

manny, this bug report is about having a flicker-free transition between plymouth and lightdm. There may be other sources of flickering on some systems, but these are separate issues. Please file bug reports with 'ubuntu-bug' for the issues you're encountering.

The kinds of regressions we would see as a result of a botched flicker-free transition to lightdm would be boot-time hangs or video corruption when lightdm starts. If you're not seeing either of these kinds of problems after applying this change, I think we can still consider this change good.