On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:10:45AM +0000, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:13:11PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Let's say cron's maintainer decides to convert
> > /etc/cron.daily/standard to use logrotate, in concordance with the
> > current policy manual.
>
> Which he's said isn't likely. Hmm...
OK, I was wrong about the choice of package.
> In your argument, logrotate will be installed iff cron is installed,
> which is a fair bet. But why force cron to be the trigger?
I think I said "Let's say...". So let it be sysklogd instead.
> If a package expects logrotate to be present, as shown by it providing
> an /etc/logrotate.d/* file, then it can express this to the packaging
> system by putting "logrotate" in its Depends: field...
Obviously. This wasn't the original question. The original question
was "hey, when something installs logrotate onto my system, suddenly
all my packages will change their log rotation behaviour." And I was
trying to explain why that was unlikely.
Julian
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