On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 02:03:57PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Unfortunately, systemd doesn't support a broad enough set of options to > properly support /etc/default with a static service file. It only changes > the > file if the administrator has changed the /etc/default file, so I think this > is OK.
The proper way to dynamically generate a systemd unit is a generator: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.generator.html However, if every Debian package implemented its own generator script to support full customization via the sysvinit default files, rather than suggesting override files in /etc/systemd/system/<service>.d/, we would converge to the same mess as with sysvinit scripts before. I will follow up asking the Debian systemd maintainers for advice, since the question of default files is relevant for many packages. Peter
