On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 08.10.12 14:50, Petr Pisar (ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> Am I the only one who raised his eyebrow when today's systemd update to >> systemd-194-1.fc18 pulled in libmicrohttpd and qrencode-libs? > > The live-syncing logging logic that is available in 184 as a preview is > based on JSON and HTTP (in order to build as much on existing standards > as possible, and get best integration with other systems). In order to > keep the footprint low we decided to use an existing embeddable minimal > HTTP engine for that, rather than writing our own. Correspondingly the > microhttpd library is only pulled in by the journal gateway daemon, > which is responsible for the HTTP iface to the journal. We thought about > splitting this off into an individual package (and it would be really > easy to still do that), but as the code of libmicrohttpd is minimal, and > it doesn't pull in any deps beyond what is already in the minimal > installation set we didn't bother so far. We support a "minimal installation" target (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MinimalPlatform ), and this really doesn't seem like something that should be included, for the same reason we don't ship a disabled-by-default ident or httpd in the minimal installation. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
