[systemd-devel] Should systemd-udev-settle.service have an [Install] section?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Michael Biebl at 03/05/13 20:52 did gyre and gimble:
> 2013/5/3 Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>:
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> seeing that  systemd-udev-settle.service is not enabled by default (as
>>> it's mostly a workaround for broken software), shouldn't we at least
>>> add an [Install] section, so it *can* be enabled easily by the
>>> administrator if needed?
>>
>> We just removed that a while ago because "broken" services should
>> rather pull it in actively. It should not be enabled globally without
>> users needing it.
> 
> ok, fair enough.
> 
>> It should work fine to add that back in a distro patch, but we do not
>> want to ship that upstream as the model is really too broken to
>> support.
> 
> Yeah, I guess we'll have to add that back in the Debian package as
> long as we ship packages which are SysV only and so don't have a way
> to pull that service in.

IIRC there were some suse patches that added support for
X-Systemd-Requires: LSB headers that allowed sysv scripts to do that...
that would probably be cleaner as it avoids manual intervention to
configure the system correctly.

Col

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