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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> 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.

You probably sent this before reading my previous answer, so sorry for
repeating myself: there will soon be cases where (special purpose)
config files are shipped by packages rather than written by
administrators, which is what we want to 'just work'.

The admin and/or distribution is of course free to ignore our
recommendation (as always).

Cheers,

Tom