On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Stephen Satchell <l...@satchell.net> wrote:
> ... > Oh, and I hate binary logs. Period. If you can't stand plain text, > then try XML. At least humans have a *chance* to read it without having > to make fancy reader tools. > > Completely agree on this point--but I fail to see why it has to be one or the other? Why can't systemd have a --text flag to tell it to output in ascii text mode for those of us who prefer it that way? The appeal to Unix versus Windows/MacOS for me was that Unix variants believed in choice and flexibility; I find it odd to see that idea falling out of fashion now. It would seem like the systemd developers could reduce a lot of resistance simply by adding the option to emit output as text logs instead of binary logs for us Crusty Old Farts(tm). Matt
