On Wed, 17.07.13 11:41, Bill Nottingham (notting@redhat.com) wrote:
Matthew Miller (mattdm@fedoraproject.org) said:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts that monitor /var/log/messages
A) If someone is installing a program that expects this file, they can also install rsyslog.
But, at the packaging level, I think it's been demonstrated that 'a program that expects this file' is not something we do a good job of consistently expressing. That should be fixed regardless of this feature proposal, but I think should definitely be a required component of accepting it.
Note that the feature proposal does actually mention this explicitly: we might need some corrected dependencies in some packages. It's a needed for the feature but even independently of the feature is the right thing to do.
Lennart