Purpose of use_syslog

[Andreas Ericsson]

Steven D. Morrey wrote:
> Thanks Andreas,
> One thing I don't want to do is break existing functionality like that.
> I'll see about modifying it to Only, Both or Off any suggestions on the naming convention?
> My first thought was 0,1,2 meaning, off,only and both, repsectively, but if we did that then people with existing installs with syslog on, would suddenly have syslog only and there history browsing would break.
> Let me know what you think!
> 

I think breaking existing installs is a no-go. Patches to do so won't be
accepted, so don't waste your time on it. Making '2' be 'syslog only'
would be acceptable though.

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