[systemd-devel] systemctl --user roadmap question

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Fri Nov 17 17:29:07 UTC 2017


On Fr, 17.11.17 09:20, Jeff Solomon (jsolomon8080 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> RHEL removed support for systemd "user services" because they said:
> 
> "Basically we don't know if systemd --user will stay in systemd as is right
> now.
> So we have decided to disable it completely so we will not hit regression
> in future versions of centos."
> 
> That statement was made 18 months ago.
> 
> Any update from the systemd side? Is "systemctl --user" going to stay the
> way it is? Dramatically change? Or even be removed? Just wondering if there
> has been any decisions made on the roadmap for "systemctl --user".
> 
> I personally find it VERY convenient to allow regular users to run their
> services using the power of systemd.

Yes, it hasn't changed in any incompatible way since quite some time,
and I figure the comment should be ignored.

Lennart

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