Yup, incredible stupid. That means it will go into Fedora.

So who of you actually read Lennarts blog postings about the rationale? Or do you just dismiss it because SYSV didn't do that, some fourty years ago?

I read it. The benefits are awfully dubious, and the downside is significant. It reinvents a wheel in the most literal sense. It claims to fix problems that are already addressed, or are easily addressable, in the current implementation and derivatives like rsyslog.

Lennart's not even planning on documenting the format.

If I wanted non-plain text logging, I'd use Windows. And I like BSD (I have never liked the SYS-V init system).

So your argument is you want plaintext because you want plaintext?

I replaced the BSD-like init system in Arch, because it is buggy. And I can dual-boot init-systems now.