[systemd-devel] Query regarding "EnvironmentFile"

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 12/09/2015 07:46 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.



The legacy sys initscripts in Fedora, more or less ( with the exception 
of very few corner cases which got solved via templates ) where just 
using environment files that resided under the /etc/sysconfig directory 
that contained options to match $FOO="Yes" or "No" or Options="Bar" 
which you override either via copy of the type unit file or via 
overwrite snippet.

I personally never saw the reason why it existed in first place ( in 
that context ) and I'm not aware of any other usecase for it's existence 
and I have seen units in various upstreams repos' that contain that 
/etc/sysconfig Fedora/RedHat-ism which at the same time makes them 
incomparable with any other distro thus adds to the upstream/downstream 
burden of maintaining those unit file(s).

If you are unaware of any other use case for it perhaps it's time to 
start looking into obsoleting it.

JBG