systemd system unit files and UsrMove

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 21:25, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> Le Lun 20 février 2012 21:20, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
>> Le Lun 20 février 2012 21:07, Kay Sievers a écrit :
>
>>> I couldn't disagree more.
>>>
>>> /usr/share in our general understanding not to be used for
>>> package-private things.
>>
>> But those files are not package-private! Even ignoring the example I just
>> gave, systemd units *will* be installed by different packages that *will* need
>> to be at least aware of the other units to handle ordering properly. Those
>> files are anything but package-private
>
> (and actually it's quite ridiculous to have systemd people argue today unit
> files belong to them alone when they've spent the past years reusing files
> that were intended for sysv. Someday something better than systemd will be
> proposed and it will have to read 'systemd' files just like systemd had to
> read 'sysv' files to handle the transition)

It all started with udev 7 years ago, and it still makes sense taking
into account all the experience we collected in that time. Find it
ridiculous or not, it's what we think is right. Even if we were not
sure about it, changing the well-established way we do it would not be
justified.

Kay