[systemd-devel] Query regarding "EnvironmentFile"

[Andrei Borzenkov]

10.12.2015 03:08, Reindl Harald пишет:
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> 
> Am 09.12.2015 um 20:46 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
>> I probably should never have added EnvironmentFile= in the first
>> place. Packagers misunderstand that unit files are subject to admin
>> configuration and should be treated as such, and that spliting out
>> configuration of unit files into separate EnvironmentFiles= is a
>> really non-sensical game of unnecessary indirection
> 
> i strongly disagree
> 
> it's the easiest way to not touch/copy the systemd-unit *and*
> systemd-snippets for just adjust a simple variable - the point here is
> simple
> 
> copy units and/or add own snippets has easily two side effects
> 
> * don't get well deserved updates for the units
> * or snippets don't play well with later dist-versions of the unit
> 
> a EnvironmentFile supported by the distributions unit is well better for
> simple adoptions
> 

This may have been true in the past.

How is

[Service]
Environment=FOO=bar

snippet today worse than environment file that does exactly the same?