Quoting Kay Sievers (2014-12-18 15:04:22)
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:09:34PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/18/2014 06:44 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >On 12/18/2014 06:36 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >> >>You missed the part where I said "you should make it opt-in".
> >> >
> >> >Should we not first determine the practicality of implementing
> >> >this and if the system service manager should actually be looking
> >> >up this info to begin with?
> >> >
> >> >We could not add the ability to define the upstream homepage in
> >> >the status output but we can now clutter the status output with a
> >> >name of a package?
> >>
> >> This could be implemented without the overhead and conflict as an
> >> extension to the output listed with "systemctl list-unit-files" if
> >> opt-in
> > That's a valid point. list-unit-files seems to be a better home
> > for this.
> 
> The systemd command line tools are not supposed to call into
> higher-level daemons to query data. This sounds like the wrong way
> around. It sound like someone should teach packagekit about systemd
> units.
> 
> Also, systmed does not want to get involved into any concept of
> "packages". It is what distributions are made of, but this is not
> systemd's task to manage of describe.

systemctl does already directly invoke man to read man pages, despite
that just being one way among many to maintain documentation.
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