--- On Thu, 2/7/13, Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > From: Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie> > Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl > To: "Mageia development mailing-list" <mageia-dev@mageia.org> > Cc: "David Walser" <luigiwal...@yahoo.com> > Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 4:56 AM > 'Twas brillig, and David Walser at > 06/02/13 18:28 did gyre and gimble: > > Colin Guthrie <mageia@...> writes: > >> Oh, for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think there > is any argument that > >> would suggest the removal from the repositories or > obsoletion of rsyslog > >> or syslog-ng etc. > > > > I agree, and that's consistent with what you've said in > the past. I thought > > it was odd that the idea of obsoleting them came up > yesterday in the packager > > meeting, but it did. The main reason was wanting > to know if rsyslog should > > still be on the DVD, in case of users using it to > upgrade from Mageia 2. > > > > It may be the case that not upgrading that particular > package during the DVD > > upgrade won't *break* anything and it can just be > upgraded after the system > > is booted and urpmi sources are added, in which case it > doesn't *need* to be > > on the DVD. Otherwise, we should make sure it's > on there. > > What I guess we could to to avoid putting rsyslog on the > physical media > would be to put a versioned conflicts in the main systemd > package with > rsyslog and syslog-ng. Thus the old packages should be > removed when > upgrading (AIUI).
I don't agree with unexpectedly forcibly removing it from people's systems. Do we even know if it hurts anything to leave the mga2 package installed for a few minutes?