On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@0pointer.de> wrote:
The journal is not an implementation of syslog, we already have that in
rsyslog. Also, the feature is about ending the duplicate storage of the
log messages, so your suggestion is completely against what the feature
is about.
 
What about a special filesystem mounted at /var/log or filesystem trickery therein that presents contents similar to what everyone expects, backed out of journalctl and its storage then?

Syslog is a valuable, long standing feature of *nix.  It's a bit early to default to it's absence; particularly with there being such little benefit from removing it, and so much to break.  Perhaps once systemd has gained wide adoption, but that is at least five years away.  Of course it's wonderful that Fedora gets systemd first.  But I don't think Fedora should be the first to default off widely adopted components of *nix.

Duplicate storage of log message was not a problem that syslog created. I don't think the right way to solve it is to default no syslog.