On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 18:21, Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> wrote: > Kay Sievers (kay.siev...@vrfy.org) said: >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 23:27, David Michael <fedora....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Right, but that then causes 'last one wins' behavior among multiple DMs. >> >> >> >> I suppose we could use alternatives for this, as much as I dislike it. >> > >> > I meant creating that symlink was the replacement for >> > /etc/sysconfig/desktop, the end-user configuration. >> >> Yes, this link will replace the config file. >> >> > As for what packages do about their DM service files, I would agree >> > with letting alternatives manage a default >> > /lib/systemd/system/display-manager.service symlink, >> >> We should not let packages create config files in lib, lib is more for >> static content from rpms, not really for configuration. For the same >> reason, 'systemctl enable/disable' acts on /etc only. > > It's not a config file, it's the default service. I mean, we could > manage the one in /etc instead, but I don't know that that's that > much better. You could make the argument that the symlink in /lib is > the system maintained software, and therefore is the proper one.
Right, if we say that gdm places the link there, I don't see a problem with that. As long as it isn't something the user can change with anything else than (de-)installing rpms, all should be fine. > Honestly, I'd prefer that 'systemctl enable', when called from > spec files, enable under /lib to better define what the system defaults > are. Of course, that might be better handled with the preset code. We should make sure that no host-specific config ends up in /lib or /usr/lib. We like to be able share all that read-only across many hosts, and the enabled/disabled state of a service is probably host-specific and should then only be stored in /etc. Kay -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
