[systemd-devel] [PATCH] man: ship systemd-udevd as the real manpage

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On 07/29/2012 11:58 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 27.07.12 20:46, Dave Reisner (dreisner at archlinux.org) wrote:
> 
>> Instead of making systemd-udevd a so-link to systemd-udevd.service,
>> ship the real page as systemd-udevd to integrate better with distros
>> where udevd might be run standalone.
> 
> Sorry, but no.
Hi,
sorry for committing this, I didn't think it would be controversial.

> We name all the service man pages after the service name, since that is
> how people will primarily come in contact with it (i.e. they'll do
> "systemctl start systemd-udevd.service", but never run
> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd directly).
> 
> We design this stuff so that it is nicely integrated and uniform in its
> behaviour. We'll not depart from that because people who don't use
> systemd might be confused. 

I'm not interested in installing without systemd myself, but I still
don't think this is a bad idea: the change is transparent in current
default installation (if we ignore the change in the title of a
manpage), and apparently it helps people who install without systemd.

Zbyszek