systemd system unit files and UsrMove

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Feb 17 17:40:44 UTC 2012


On 2012-02-17 10:28, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 17:17 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 02/17/2012 05:09 PM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>> >
>> >  Sure, as time permits and when such can be done without harming 
>> user
>> > experience.
>>
>> Why bother only with unit files? Users never touch those the ones in
>> /lib/systemd/system or /usr/lib/systemd/system anyway so there is no
>> breakage for them...
>
>
> Well, as we discussed the other day on IRC, we pretty much all agreed
> that it's not in the spirit of the FHS to have these files in /lib
> or /usr/lib. The only reason they were ever in /lib to begin with is
> because /share didn't exist (and at the time we were (correctly)
> positioning systemd as being prefix=/ and not prefix=/usr).

That wasn't the impression I got. Some people at least seemed to be
arguing that /usr/share was no more 'correct' for systemd unit files
than /usr/lib/systemd is.

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