On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 12:30 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Especially as I found that I did not use journalctl in my daily > practice anyway.
Given you wrote earlier that you moved all but one of your machines away from Debian, whatever Debian installs by default doesn't affect you anyway. I don't write on mailing lists of distributions I don't use (or only use a bit) arguing about what is included in their default installation, though one could argue that emacs should be installed everywhere by default. > So why would removing rsyslog from the default install the only > viable approach to solve duplicate logging? If the rsyslog maintainer is also fine with this (which I'll assume he is), I think there's no real problem if that would be done. I might install rsyslog by hand on a few systems then, but that's not a real problem given I already have to install other packages anyway... I have no problem installing a different MTA than Debian's default (exim), my preferred shell, my preferred editor and so on either. Ansgar