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Re: Recommends for metapackages



On Mi, 11 iul 12, 14:41:50, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Depending on how you do the package selection on your next installation 
> > you might end up with rsyslog, but without logrotate[1].
> 
> I don't see how that would break anything. logrotate is not necessary
> for log rotation, not with the syslog daemon of my choice at least. And
> as you said yourself, log rotation isn't mandatory either.

Given that I have turned off Recommends on that system because it's 
space constrained (it's running from a 2GB USB stick) having logs not 
rotated would have become a problem eventually.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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