On Thu, 18.07.13 10:34, Vít Ondruch (vondr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Dne 18.7.2013 01:02, Lennart Poettering napsal(a): > >So, maybe, instead of dropping the "Provides syslog" thing from > >journald, maybe we should add an explicit "syslog-files" dependency (or > >something named like that) and then make the classic syslog > >implementations provide that and the packages which actually need > >/var/log/messages pull that it? > > > >Lennart > > > > So why there are files in /var/log and there is not obvious package, > which creates them (unless you want to guess by name)? Shouldn't all > package, which creates log in /var/log have some virtual provide to > make it obvious? Why not do it properly/consistently?
So, you suggest using "Requires: /var/log/messages" and "Provides: /var/log/messages" as indication for this, and the %ghost /var/log/messages in the packages in question? Sounds good to me! Matthew? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
