[systemd-devel] Can't make local user.conf work

[G D'Arezzo]

On 29 February 2016 at 19:05, Kok, Auke-jan H <auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:26 PM, G D'Arezzo <gdarrezzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "You probably want to use [Service] instead."
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, Auke.  Unfortunately, Service and
>> DefaultEnvironment don't go together:
>>
>> [/home/temp/.config/systemd/user/test.service.d/user.conf:2] Unknown
>> lvalue 'DefaultEnvironment' in section 'Service'
>
> I just reread the man page for that. DefaultEnvironment is valid only
> for user.conf, not any conf.d* file associated with a specific unit
> (obviously, since those are not variants of "user.conf", but instead
> are variants of unit files).
>
> The [Manager] section is only valid in:
>
>        /etc/systemd/user.conf, /etc/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf,
> /run/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf,
>        /usr/lib/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf
>
> The manual page systemd-user.conf(5) does not mention at all being
> able to use ~/.config/systemd/. This seems like a shortcoming to me,
> though.
>
> Auke


Is this a feature which never happened or should it work?