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

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:53:04PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [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.
> 
> 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?

We could do this directly in sysvinit-utils given the history.
Or in whatever package is responsible for installing rsyslogd
(unless it's directly done by the installer?).


Regards,
Roger

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