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

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> We'd have to look in all the possible folders, and there may (and due
> to 99-deafult.link, always will) be files there, so we don't really
> have a reasonable test. When we start shipping some default .network
> files it becomes even harder (e.g. the thing Lennart mentioned which
> will only apply for given interfaces that we create ourselves inside
> systemd-nspawn). We'll then always have config files, but they may not
> necessarily apply (and we can't know whether or not they ever will).

It seems like the component in this equation that always does know
whether or not it should be running is the system administrator who is
taking the time to write config files for networkd, or not. And in the
case that the sysadmin sits down to write config files, then
undoubtedly he'll also 'systemctl enable systemd-networkd.service' it.
In the case that he doesn't write config files, then of course it
shouldn't be running by default.