[systemd-devel] How to disable unit under /lib/systemd/system/*.wants?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 18.09.10 21:39, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at mail.ru) wrote:

> Let's assume unit foo is installed as wanted by other unit under 
> $systemunitdir (/lib/systemd/system/bar.wants/foo). How can I now 
> disable it? systemctl (enable|disable) only manipulates links under 
> $pkgsysconfdir, so "systemctl disable foo" in this case does nothing.
> 
> Such links are created during standard installation of systemd.

Services enabled via /lib/systemd/system/xxxx.wants/ are not intended to
be disabled by the user/admin. 

The idea is that we link only those services in /etc/systemd/system
where the admin/user has a good reason to disable them. However all
really basic services that are integral part of the OS are symlinked
directly in /lib/systemd/system, thus offering less of a chance for
breakage and making things less fragile.

Speaking with an example: the admin/user might have a good reason to
enable/disable an installed apache, but there's little point in
disabling/enabling really basic services such as hwclock.service, which
we hence pull in unconditionally,

If some distros decide to disable these services nonetheless, then they
can do that by doing "rm" after the "make install". But disabling those
services should be left to the distros, not the admin/user.

The line between those services which are enabled via /etc and those
enabled via /lib is the same line which seperates stuff that is supposed
to be under admin/user control from stuff under OS developer control.

Lennart

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