Seems I am not the only one who got fooled by the silly package description (bug #43684). Today it was mentioned like a syslog-ng alternative in the installation handbook but it is gone now. ;-) I can still see in Google's cache, though. If you will re-introduce it into the installation handbook please explain what is user supposed to do after emerging (hint: add it into a crontab file). Thank you.
And please add an example /etc/newsyslog.conf, as it is mentioned in manpage as the default filename
"An enhanced version of newsyslog originally written by Theodore Ts'o" I agree that this is hardly a proper package description, especially since this newsyslog shares the name of the original one, and gives no clue about the purpose of either. Let's go with this instead: "[...] is a highly configurable program for managing and archiving log files."[1] [1] http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/newsyslog.html
--- ./ChangeLog +++ ./ChangeLog @@ -2 +2 @@ -# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 +# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 @@ -4,0 +5,3 @@ + 10 Sep 2013; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> newsyslog-1.1.ebuild: + Set DESCRIPTION to something descriptive by Martin Mokrejš (bug #484388). +
