Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mi, 11 iul 12, 14:41:50, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: >> > >> > Depending on how you do the package selection on your next installation >> > you might end up with rsyslog, but without logrotate[1]. >> >> I don't see how that would break anything. logrotate is not necessary >> for log rotation, not with the syslog daemon of my choice at least. And >> as you said yourself, log rotation isn't mandatory either. > > Given that I have turned off Recommends on that system because it's > space constrained (it's running from a 2GB USB stick) having logs not > rotated would have become a problem eventually.
a) logrotate is not required for log rotation. b) You can still install it if you need it. I can also stop installing my video driver, since it's not depended on (nor recommended) by anything but the huge xserver-xorg-video-all metapackage, and then call my system broken. *shrug* -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871ukhuyzx.fsf@algernon.balabit
