F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Eric Smith]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 15.07.13 14:53, Eric Smith (brouhaha at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
>> If we go to having only binary logs by default, maybe we should also
>> go to having only binary configuration files by default.  It's
>> basically the same arguments: there's more information available; it's
>> easier for software to parse; it can be made more reliable; special
>> tools are OK and people don't really need to open it in a text editor.
>>  We've seen how well that works on Windows.  Blech.

> Nobody is proposing this.

Nobody is seriously proposing it, yet no one has given much
explanation of why binary-only logs are better than text logs that
isn't essentially the same as the arguments for the Windows Registry.

Eric