hi. So I was playing with an archlinux guest in vbox to learn a bit about systemd. And I found out that the gpm.service was broken. systemctl enable or systemctl start does not work for gpm.service. I looked for bugs and found FS#30053 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30053 I just copied and pasted the feature request from the bug report and added one more line and it worked this time. here it is. [Unit] Description=GPM daemon Requires=getty.target [Service] Type=forking EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/gpm ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gpm $GPM_ARGS [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target I requested the bug to be reopened and it was denied. That's not the problem. The problem for me is the reasoning behind the denial: I quote "We don't want to be using Arch-specific service files, and anything with /etc/conf.d would be that. If you need to use special options, make a copy of the service in /etc and change it directly. As to the missing [Install] section, I'd open a new report." Systemd is made to boot/init a linux distro. But our distro here is archlinux and we are making archlinux package, right ? I understand we ship unpatched upstream package, but do we want to ship broken package so that they stay untouched ? For me, systemd service/unit file are just meant to be that, tailored to archlinux. Well, I am a newbie systemd user, so if this is required that we customize every broken systemd service to make it work, so be it.
