Currently drop-ins cannot remove dependencies. Use a full override. <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 06:41 Nikos Chantziaras <<a href="mailto:realnc@gmail.com">realnc@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello. I recently switched a Gentoo system from OpenRC to systemd. I'd like to keep tty1 (VT1) for login, and move the display manager (SDDM) to tty7. SDDM is configured for that, but the installed service file (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service) has this: [Unit] Conflicts=getty@tty1.service If I edit that file directly and change it to: Conflicts=getty@tty7.service it works. systemd is prevented from stopping getty on tty1. I can login normally on VT1. However, this change gets lost on SDDM updates. So I'd like to override that. So I did: systemctl edit sddm.service with this in it: [Unit] Conflicts= Conflicts=getty@tty7.service This successfully creates /etc/systemd/system/sddm.service.d/override.conf with the above contents. AFAIK, this should override "Conflicts" and prevent getty@tty1.service from stopping. But it doesn't. When SDDM starts, tty1 is stopped. The only way to keep that from happening is to edit the installed sddm.service file directly. Does someone know why the override doesn't work? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- </div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Mantas Mikulėnas <<a href="mailto:grawity@gmail.com">grawity@gmail.com</a>> Sent from my phone </div>