[systemd-devel] [PATCH] install: Do not enable systemd-networkd by default

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 21.02.14 04:38, Jason A. Donenfeld (Jason at zx2c4.com) wrote:

> systemd-network.service should not be started unless the administrator
> runs "systemctl enable systemd-network.service", as it's entirely
> unessential and most distributions use their own network management
> daemons instead. If some distributions or users choose to use systemd's
> built in networking, then it is simple enough to enable. But by default,
> it doesn't make sense to waste resources running this when no networks
> are configured with it.

I'd propose to make it compile-time optional (logind is too). And I'd
move it to be installed via [Install] instead of a static symlink in
/usr. However, I'd still create the /etc symlink on "make install"; the
same way as we enable remote-fs.target or suchlike.

Tom?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat