On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:49:18PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > This sounds really wrong (tm) to me. It took me two weeks to kill that > > silly systemd-units pkg. > > All the distros around here do install systemd units with their > > packages and I believe that the council has already spoken about this. > > It sounds more wrong to me to be asking normal package maintainers to > test and maintain unit files, while they don't use systemd themselves, > nor have it installed. Nor would most of our users need this. > > And I believe the council has only spoken out against using a useflag > for installing such files. Afaik they haven't spoken out against a > systemd-units package. Please refer me to their decision if I'm wrong.
I'm going to have to agree with Fabio on this one. A systemd-units package is not a good idea. The eventual goal is to get the systemd units into the upstream packages. Thanks, William
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