Instead of specifying "need clock logger", init.d/atd should use "use clock logger" as a dependency declaration. Otherwise atd is unneccessarily restarted on a syslogger restart.
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+*at-3.1.16-r1 (16 Dec 2014) + + 16 Dec 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> -at-3.1.13-r2.ebuild, + -at-3.1.15.ebuild, +at-3.1.16-r1.ebuild, -files/at-3.1.13-Makefile.patch, + +files/atd.rc8: + Don't set dependency of init script for logger to "need" but "use" instead + (bug #473492). Removed old. +