F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:37:16AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.)
That's a limitation of the build system, it doesn't have enough "smarts"
to check just the dependencies of one of the many binaries that are build.
journalctl itself doesn't use dbus or libcap, or talk to journald for that
matter.

Zbyszek
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