Bug#717388: Volunteers needed to work on enabling persistent journal

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:55:42PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:31:28AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > systemd-journal-syslog Depends on systemd-journal-persistent |
> > systemd-journal-transient (so that you *can* still explicitly choose to
> > have syslog with transient-only storage, useful for some systems such as
> > those with no persistent storage at all) and Conflicts/Provides
> > system-log-daemon.
> 
> AIUI I don't see the point here. Once you Provides system-log-daemon
> you can't have any other system-log-daemon installed (as they conflict
> against your provides).

The point there is that you then have a provider of system-log-daemon
that acts as a proper syslog implementation but only logs in-memory.
That's useful for some embedded systems, for instance.

- Josh Triplett