[mythtv-users] --logfile vs. --logpath

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 05/21/2012 07:27 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> This is bad for distributions as well. How should mythtv be packaged? 
> With logpath and then having a directory with lots of confusing files? 
> With syslog and then try to figure out which facility is not used and
> how to configure the different log daemons (Debian has three at least)?
> 
> This new behaviour makes everything so unnecessary complicated.

FWIW, I agree. As far as I understand the motivation for the change in
behaviour (and I'm not saying that I do), it makes it easier for a user
to find the right information to provide to developers in case a bug
needs to be reported at the expense of either a large and uncontrolledly
growing number of files or disabling the behaviour by adopting syslog.

So when I migrate to 0.25 I'll be going down the syslog route.

And as you point out I don't envy the packager's job here.

Cheers, Jan