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by antientropic 4285 days ago
You are referring to systemd-journal-gatewayd, which has a dependency on libmicrohttpd, a 93 KB web server. You don't have to run it - it's an optional unit, that even when enabled is activated on demand. You don't even need to build it, since it can be disabled with a configure flag. If systemd-journal-gatewayd were a separate package, nobody would complain about it. So why is it such a big deal that it comes included in the systemd source tree?