[Pcsclite-muscle] New pcsc-lite 1.8.23

[Sebastien Lorquet]

Hello again,

well understood, thanks for the clarification.

systemd did not ring so many bells the years before, so I have not noticed that
until now :)

Sebastien


Le 19/12/2017 à 20:39, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit :
> Le 19/12/2017 à 09:39, Sebastien Lorquet a écrit :
>> hello
>
> Hello,
>
>> with all the stability and security issues related to systemd that all users of
>> modern linux are aware of these days (including making itself a required
>> dependency of a huge number of projects unrelated to system initialization), is
>> the dependency on libsystemd still optional?
>
> pcsc-lite uses systemd since version 1.8.0 released in November 2011.
>
> The change introduced with this release is that the code now uses libsystemd
> instead of using a (no more maintained) sd-daemon.c embedded source code file.
>
>> Not that I plan to build a systemd-free version of libpcsclite myself, but some
>> people might want to do that...
>
> Yes, the use of systemd is optional.
> If you do not use systemd you will not get pcscd auto start support as
> described in
> https://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.fr/2011/11/pcscd-auto-start-using-systemd.html
>
> Bye
>