Comment # 2 on bug 1129541 from Dan ��erm��k

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #1)
> You need to install systemd-logger package for creating /var/log/journal.

That's the reason! That package was missing on my system.

> 
> Not sure why you need to do that manually, I thought that it was part of the
> packages installed by default.

Apparently not. For some reason my Tumbleweed machine came with rsyslog instead
of systemd-logger, however journalctl was still available and it looks like it
did all the logging anyway. For the record: during installation I selected only
the most minimal patterns and disabled the installation of Recommended
packages.

Should I report this somewhere else instead?