On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 17/03/2016 9:39 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You just have to override it in "/etc/systemd/system/". > > Which (as I pointed out on the bug report associated with this issue) is > a completely retarded and broken concept to do. > > Applying this override will block out any future updates to the systemd > unit file rendering any changes / updates in the future to be futile. > > It breaks the entire concept of having package managed service files. > > This attitude causes problems and is the very salt in the wound of > veteran system administrators. Fix the breakage - not apply workarounds > - this isn't Windows, and we completely reject these "solutions". I didn't read the bug report but, unless you're using LFS, there isn't a simple solution. In the past, you'd end up with a file with a suffix (or a prefix in Gentoo) and you'd have to diff the two and figure out whether you want to use the new one as-is or modify it or keep the old one. Now, you can just run systemd-delta after an update.