[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#659490: bootlogd: Should be Recommends or Depends.

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sat Feb 11 15:53:04 UTC 2012


[Mats Erik Andersson]
> It is unreasonable to leave the new package "bootlogd" without any
> dependencies at all. In fact, a UNIX system lacking bootlogd should
> be considered crippled.

Well, considering that bootlogd was broken for years after udev was
introduced and no-one cared enough about fixing it until I did a few
years ago, I do not believe it is very important to have bootlogd
available.

When that I said I believe it is a useful tool (after all, I took the
time to fix it and enable it on my systems).  I believe it make sense
to install it in the default setup, while still allowing it to be
removed.  Thus a recommend would be a good thing.  Not quite sure
which package that should recommend it.  Suggestions?
-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen





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