Ben de Groot schrieb: > On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >> new systemd units of the sort that maintainers just_dont_answer(tm). >> In this case, I am just giving 3 weeks grace period for maintainers to >> answer and then I usually go ahead adding units (I'm in systemd@ after >> all). > In my opinion you should not be asking maintainers to add systemd > units to their packages. They most likely do not have systems on which > they can test these, and very few users would need them anyway. I > would think it is better to add them to a separate systemd-units > package.
Note that a similar thing is already done with the selinux policy packages. Mostly the complaints against adding systemd units are that it would unnecessarily clutter non-systemd installs. Users who complain are told to set INSTALL_MASK but that is somewhat unwieldy. A separate package for the unit file would solve this problem nicely. Another option would be to add a "dounit" command to a future EAPI (like doinitd today) and make portage install them unless FEATURES="nounit" (like nodoc/noinfo/noman today). Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
