On 05/08/2013 01:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2013 23:26:57 +0800
> 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.
> 
> How would that package handle unit files differing per package
> versions? For example, changed options, relocated executables...

It would effectively need to be bumped every time any package added,
removed or changed a unit file requirement. Also every time a unit
file-bearing package is added or removed from tree.

That would be one insanely hot package.


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