F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jul 17 15:37:16 UTC 2013


Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) said: 
> Compiling journalctl on UINXy OSes should not be too much of a problem.
> You'd need dbus >= 1.4.0, libcap, liblzma (if used by the journal files
> in question). Not trivial but certainly doable.

Other than 'because the same command as it stands now talks to journald
itself', why would a reader for other OSes require dbus and libcap?

(i.e., if you're targeting a foreign reader, I think it should be simpler.)

Bill


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