[OE-core] Why do we use sysklogd as the default syslog?

[ChenQi]

On 07/30/2018 08:58 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> 2018-07-30 8:48 GMT+02:00 ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>:
>> I just noticed that we are using sysklogd as the default syslog.
>> meta/recipes-extended/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-full-cmdline.bb:VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog
>> ?= "sysklogd"
>>
>> sysklogd has stopped development for about 4 years, and as far as I can see,
>> nobody is maintaining it.
>> Is there some specific reason why we want to keep it as the default syslog
>> for our reference images? small size?
>
> You are welcome to improve this. Quite often the answer to such
> questions is 'because no one is aware of the situation'.
>
> Alex
>
In case someone is also interested in this topic, I'll add some more 
information here.

rsyslog is GPLv3 and syslog-ng uses a very different configuration style 
from traditional sysklogd.
So I guess I'll just leave things as they are now.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi