[clamav-users] Clamd and Systemd

[Scott Kitterman]

On June 18, 2015 10:52:39 AM EDT, Simon Hobson <linux at 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