glib2, and the replacement of libol, eventlog libraries.
That's one of the reasons for the change. The only other solution is to give a choice in the book, but that's not a wise decision. Syslog is now officially being maintained by the original author. He's active again.
http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/
Here is a message that took a lot of us by surprise http://lists.infodrom.org/infodrom-sysklogd/2005/0001.html
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