On June 18, 2015 10:52:39 AM EDT, Simon Hobson <li...@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote: >I've been trying to upgrade a Debian Wheezy system to Jessie without >allowing SystemD to sneak in. I've found that the Debian clamav-daemon >package (but none of the others) depends on libsystemd0. > >I just wanted to check whether this is something that's in the upstream >package, or something that's been introduced in the Debian packaging. >Does anyone know where this dependency comes in (upstream or Debian) ? > >Also, does anyone know how "important" this dependency is ? Is it just >some small optional features, or something fundamental that can't be >removed ? My gut feeling is that given the range or platforms ClamAV >runs on (inc many without SystemD), it can't be that important.
It's there because of the way we build the package to support the default init system. I don't recall exactly why. It doesn't, however, do anything if systemd isn't the active init system. Other than taking a small amount of disk space it's harmless. Scott K _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
