On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 08:51:43PM +0100, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2014 19:40:14 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > This destination must be know to systemd. So anything generic like ~/usr > > is unlikely to work, unless systemd is modified to check that directory too. > > When installed as a user, it should go to $HOME/.local/share/systemd/user/. > > Please see [1] for an up-to-date list of directories where user units are > > loaded from. The ones in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME are for user overrides, so > > .local/share/ seems the most appropriate. > > > > [1] > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#Unit%20Lo > > ad%20Path > > It would then be up to the user to either adjust the install path or copy the > file or adjust their systemd configuration. This part of systemd configuration can only be done be recompling, and systemd --user instances use the binary installed in /usr/lib/systemd/, so changing the directory is not possible without root privileges anyway.
> But it would avoid the trouble of > writing outside the user specified $prefix. Yes, but it would require manual fixups and would make the installed file useless without further steps. It's a tradeoff ;) Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
