Bug#799549: systemd: Provide system-log-daemon

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> writes:
> I'd actually suggest *two* tiny packages: a systemd-journal-persistent
> package that ships /var/log/journal and provides/conflicts
> system-log-daemon, and a systemd-journal-transient package that
> pointedly doesn't ship /var/log/journal (or in the future if "auto" mode
> goes away, explicitly configures transient mode) and provides/conflicts
> system-log-daemon.  That way, someone who really does want in-memory
> logging only can install systemd-journal-transient to make that choice
> explicitly, satisfying other packages that need a system-log-daemon.

I admit not liking (ab)using packages to configure systems as I don't
like tiny packages and don't think this approach scales well.

If you really want packages handling configuration, there is debconf
(which can be preseeded). Or people can use puppet and the like.

Ansgar