[systemd-devel] Adding a Timer section to .service files

[Andrei Borzenkov]

08.07.2016 21:40, Michał Zegan пишет:
> Well, I also came with another idea. of course if you do not want to
> have two different ways to do one thing it is a stopper, but I will tell
> about it for completeness as it may or may not be easier to implement.
> Instead of creating a timer unit on service file installation or
> something, you could have service and similar sections in the timer
> unit, so the other way around. then, if service name is not explicitly
> set in the unit and the service file with appropriate name does not
> exist, it could just create it using information found in the timer unit
> file, if such information can be found. The service file will be
> generated in /run/systemd/system for example and it will work normally.

So you just added one more step and end up in with exactlythe same - you
have separate timer and service units. How is it an improvement? If you
need to have separate service unit anyway, what advantage defining it
somewhere else offers?

> So, except the reason about not wanting to have two different ways of
> doing one thing, it does not have other problems of the approach
> mentioned first unless you also have another reasons not to generate
> service units this way.
>