On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 21:42 Daniel Wang <wonder...@google.com> wrote:
> I am puzzled by the fact that while symlinks for most builtin units are > installed at /usr/lib/systemd/system, a few are linked at > /etc/systemd/system, for example, systemd-networkd.service and > systemd-timesyncd.service. > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/units/meson.build#L187:L191 > > Why the difference? > Symlinks in /usr are supposed to be essentially fixed: the distro installs them as part of the package and the unit is always enabled, unless masked. (Some of them don't even have an [Install] section.) Symlinks in /etc, meanwhile, are just defaults for someone who installs from source; the service itself is optional and distros might apply the same defaults via presets, or via post_install, or not at all. In any case the admin can still disable networkd and timesyncd using normal commands. > -- Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com> Sent from my phone
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