Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] system profiles, stackable profiles, virtuals, and dependencies
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:26:09
Message-Id: 1090499574.22438.34.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] system profiles, stackable profiles, virtuals, and dependencies by Paul Varner
1 On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:36, Paul Varner wrote:
2 > > vixie-cron can run fine without any logger at all. I have actually
3 > > configured such a system, simply when playing around. What happens is
4 > > any messages are dumped to the console, which isn't very good, but
5 > > proves that there is no hard requirement for a logger.
6 >
7 > If that's the case then the ebuild shouldn't install a startup file into
8 > /etc/init.d that has "need logger" in its depend section. It should be
9 > changed to a "use logger".
10
11 I agree. File a bug. You might want to check dcron and the others,
12 too.
13
14 > Currently as installed by the ebuild, vixie-cron requires a system
15 > logger to be installed to operate correctly.
16
17 Then that is a bug in the ebuild and should be treated as such... =]
18
19 --
20 Chris Gianelloni
21 Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
22 Gentoo Linux
23
24 Is your power animal a penguin?

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