2017-12-11 15:03 GMT-06:00 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de>:
> OK.  But it's still there taking up RAM, and (more importantly) makes a
> systemd system a broader target for attacks.  Whether a system has an
> http server (or, for that matter, an SSH server), for whatever purpose,
> should be for the system administrator to decide.  I suspect this isn't
> the case for systemd's http server.
>
 Too much suspicion, too much assumtions,
$ equery  -N u systemd  | grep http
 - - http       : Enable embedded HTTP server in journald

$ grep -C 2 http $PORTDIR/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-235-r1.ebuild

42:    http? (
43:        >=net-libs/libmicrohttpd-0.9.33:0=
44-        ssl? ( >=net-libs/gnutls-3.1.4:0= )
45-    )


42:    http? (
43:        >=net-libs/libmicrohttpd-0.9.33:0=
44-        ssl? ( >=net-libs/gnutls-3.1.4:0= )
45-    )

I prefer certainty, don't you?

It is actually more useful to check the software, than lose your time
with so many words on this list.

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