[systemd-devel] Prioritize the /etc configuration over /usr/lib also with .include

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:40:11 +0200
Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> пишет:

> On Wednesday 17 of September 2014 11:50:08 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:52:00AM +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > > Thanks, I agree, and yet another rule on top of that -- the /usr/lib
> > > dropins _are ignored_ if /etc service overriding the one in /usr/lib
> > > exists [1] which seems like it is expected (and I appreciate that
> > > behavior).
> >
> > Sorry, but the .include mechanism is deprecated (and almost unused
> > nowadays)
> 
> Note that the thing that .include changed its semantics due to drop-in
> feature is not really proper deprecation.  Nor any documentation, warnings
> about its usage, etc.
> 

I reread your original post and I still fail to see what has
changed. IIRC ".include file" always meant "literally inline content of file
in place of .include line". This is exactly what still happens now. Do
you have pointers to old documentation that stated something different?

> > and we are not going to work on changing the semantics of something that
> > we don't want people to use anyway.
> 
> TBH, I'm not sure where I asked you to work on something, just wanted to
> do some high-level discussion.  But it does not matter.
> 
> The question was left behind: What would get broken if the .include
> haven't this unexpected side-efect?
> 
> Pavel
> 
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