Plymouth splash not correct in Sabayon

After a Sabayon 13 update in May 2015, new artwork is locked in the initrd file system.  Dracut builds of the initramfs kernal image file system are not used by the system.

To repair Plymouth functionality:

• Remove dracut
• Install updated gcc package
• Install genkernel-next
• Set the preferred theme in /etc/plymouth/plymouth.conf
• Backup the current initramfs file
• Run genkernel initramfs
• Reboot