Virtual provides for files in /var/log

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 10:34 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 18.7.2013 01:02, Lennart Poettering napsal(a):
> > So, maybe, instead of dropping the "Provides syslog" thing from
> > journald, maybe we should add an explicit "syslog-files" dependency (or
> > something named like that) and then make the classic syslog
> > implementations provide that and the packages which actually need
> > /var/log/messages pull that it?
> >
> > Lennart
> >
> 
> So why there are files in /var/log and there is not obvious package, 
> which creates them (unless you want to guess by name)? Shouldn't all 
> package, which creates log in /var/log have some virtual provide to make 
> it obvious? Why not do it properly/consistently?

Why a virtual provides, can't they just %ghost their log files?


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Mathieu