On 01/04/14 03:30 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Tue 01, April 20:48:16 Florian Pritz wrote: >> Moving to extra sounds good. > > +1 > >> Move it to extra and make it a dep of everything that logs to /var/log >> by default, optdep for stuff that can be configured to log there. (both >> assume that the package actually has a logrotate config ofc) > > Is not needed for packages that log to /var/log (e.g. pacman), but for > packages that install a logrotate.d script (42 at the moment). I'm not sure > if > this should be a dep or optdep though.
I think many of these support using syslog instead of writing their own log file, which might be a better default for at least some of them. Querying logs in the journal is a joy compared to dealing with custom format dates and so on in an application-specific log file.
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