On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:04:02AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 04:37:06PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > I think I see a way to distinguish these four cases in a way that gets
> > everyone what they want.
> >
> > systemd adds an *empty* binary package
> > Package: systemd-journald-is-syslog
> > Provides/Conflicts: system-log-daemon
>
> Thank you for bringing this up. Despite the little confusion in the end
> that Chris remarked, I think this practically covers the four cases.
>
> However, I think there is a fifth case that is becoming more and more
> practically relevant. Both docker and podman now have a logging driver
> called journald.
I wonder why we then not adopt the systemd ways of seeing this. The
system is expected to provide the logging facility or their lack of. So
sysvinit just needs to pull in a syslog daemon.
Then we don't longer have that burden on the lower packages.
Bastian
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