[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Small patch to enable the journal's gatewayd

[Michael Biebl]

Am 26.01.2014 11:09, schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> Hi Alejandro,
> 
> Alejandro Exojo <suy at badopi.org> writes:
>> I don't know if you prefer a commit in some repo that you can pull from, or 
>> what's the procedure. Do you want entry in the changelog, or make it wait for 
>> another release maybe? Maybe you want to provide it in a separate package, so 
>> the systemd general package doesn't depend on libmicrohttpd...
> Personally, I think splitting it out into a separate package just to
> avoid a 60K dependency is not worth it.
> 
> Unless Tollef or Michael disagree, I’d appreciate it if you could just

As a matter of fact, I actually disagree here. I wouldn't want to see
the journal gateway shipped by default in the systemd package.
One issue is the dependency on a rather uncommon library which is pulled
in on every system. Remember, each new (build)dependency means being
entangled in yet another possible library transition. So we should pick
our (build)dependencies carefully.
The more important one though is that imho the gateway is not yet
production ready. We should only very carefully enable features which we
consider ready and are also willing to support. Especially the missing
builtin security is something which makes me a bit unhappy. Atm I'd
simply recommend using rsyslog if you want to do remote logging.

As a side note: Even Fedora, which isn't known for splitting packages
lightly, has split the gateway into a systemd-journal-gateway package.

Regards,
Michael
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