On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 14:58 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
We ask this constantly on Fedora. Because Fedora is where innovation is supposed to take place, not where things are stay frozen in carbonite forever.
(And let's never forget that Fedora is not the pioneer here. ArchLinux went journal-only already. We are not actually the innovators here, we just follow.)
I believe openSUSE 12.3 does not install syslog anymore either. (I think they decided they did not want to log everything twice? :) Fedora's following this time.
They had a couple of mailing list fights over the issue, which I thought were pretty impressive at the time, but you guys put them to shame!