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Re: RFC: (m)syslog default config



Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Arthur" == Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch> writes:

>    Arthur> Hi Marco d'Itri schrieb:
>    >> On Jun 10, Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch> wrote:
>    >> 
>    >> >But actually I'd favour a single news.log. Since you are the
>    >> INN >maintainer: does INN actually depend on the split logs?
>    >> Yes.

>    Arthur> I'd say that's a bug in INN. Making assumptions about
>    Arthur> other packages configs is just as depending on environment
>    Arthur> variables.

> I tend to believe that if all the package maintainers involved agree,
> it is no worse than assuming things about your own package's config.

Which is pretty bad in itself since the user can/should be able to change
the configuration.  Besides, who is to say that all future maintainers of
those packages will agree as well.
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