[systemd-devel] Semantic of WantedBy=default.target

[Andrei Borzenkov]

I spent some time trying to understand why a service that should have
been started was not. It turned out rather simple - the service was
WantedBy=default.target, I explicitly used "3" on the kernel command
line and this made systemd to ignore
/etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants.

Is there any reason to *not* treat systemd.unit as default in this
case? After all, "default target" is the target that systemd starts
when running as /sbin/init and passing systemd.unit is entirely
equivalent to overriding default.target once at run-time.