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When it comes to the systemd logs, this is kind of what the -x flag to journalctl does (or tries to do.)

Having detailed human-level descriptions of what's going on and how to fix it is great. But you also don't want to drown out any important details under waves of verbose text.

The solution, then, is to show the extra detail only when it's requested with the -x flag.

This works pretty well, all things considered. The detailed messages are fine, but they could be better—but that's probably always going to be true. It's a start, anyway.




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