On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 8 May 2013 23:39, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On 1 May 2013 18:04, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> It looks like there is some consensus on the effort of making systemd >>>> more accessible, while there are problems with submitting bugs about >>>> new systemd units of the sort that maintainers just_dont_answer(tm). >>>> In this case, I am just giving 3 weeks grace period for maintainers to >>>> answer and then I usually go ahead adding units (I'm in systemd@ after >>>> all). >>> >>> In my opinion you should not be asking maintainers to add systemd >>> units to their packages. They most likely do not have systems on which >>> they can test these, and very few users would need them anyway. I >> >>> would think it is better to add them to a separate systemd-units >>> package. >> >> This sounds really wrong (tm) to me. It took me two weeks to kill that >> silly systemd-units pkg. >> All the distros around here do install systemd units with their >> packages and I believe that the council has already spoken about this. > > It sounds more wrong to me to be asking normal package maintainers to > test and maintain unit files, while they don't use systemd themselves, > nor have it installed. Nor would most of our users need this.
Nobody is asking maintainers to test units. The systemd team is responsible for them. > > And I believe the council has only spoken out against using a useflag > for installing such files. Afaik they haven't spoken out against a > systemd-units package. Please refer me to their decision if I'm wrong. I was referring to that. We never mentioned a possible systemd-units package in any council meeting I believe. I hardly believe that the systemd team would accept such choice. > > -- > Cheers, > > Ben | yngwin > Gentoo developer > Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin > -- Fabio Erculiani
