Hi, vita...@yourcmc.ru: > And it seems I'm not the only one who doesn't like it! And I'm sure > that at least 50% of swear words addressed to systemd could be > stopped at once if the journal was made ALSO optional. So why not > just do it?... > Because it's work, for no apparent gain. I mean, the systemd people didn't just code up all that journal stuff for no good reason, but because they perceived a need to have it. And let's face it, the ability to just see the stderr output from $FAILED_JOB with "systemctl status" is a whole damn lot better than to restart the thing in the foreground and hope to be able to reproduce the problem that caused it to die.
You can split off systemd-journal and its supporting files into a separate binary package. That'd probably be quite simple. The question is, why would you even want to ..? -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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