It would be really cool if lograte would link against the compression libs directly instead of calling a compression binary. Execing another binary produces all sorts of packaging problems in Nixpkgs/NixOS. For example, we need to include the binary outputs of the compression tools instead of the lib outputs.

Is that something you could consider? It would make the logrotate closure a little smaller and solve all sorts of headaches on our side without making life any harder for others (distro packagers).

I have proposed the same to kbd and it made it much nicer to package it: legionus/kbd#138