tor dependency insanity.

[Enrico Scholz]

Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> writes:

>>> All the initscripts have huge and broken dependency chains.
>>> E.g. assuming I would use the vanilla fedora 'initscripts' package, then
>>> tor would still require[1] syslog, cpio, e2fsprogs, ethtool, mount, ...
>>> although it does not log anything, does not extract/pack anything, does
>
> It does not log anything because Enrico broke logging in tor package. 

Not that this was the reason, but it is the upstream setup to have
logging disabled.  Your comment is unrelated to this discussion because
logging can be done into a file and does not require syslog.


> The tor upstream has filed that as bug report as well.

... and understand my reasons not to activate logging


Enrico