[CentOS-devel] Why is systemd user instance support disabled in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7?

[Julien Pivotto]

On 21 Dec 10:47, Tadej Janež wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm preparing a backup package for Fedora/EPEL 7 [1] that provides a web
> server with a systemd unit file for running with the systemd user
> instance (i.e. 'systemd --user').
> 
> As reported in [2], systemd user instance support is disabled in CentOS
> 7 due to being disabled in the upstream RHEL package. It is the same
> with the latest systemd for CentOS 7 [3].
> 
> Unfortunately, the original Red Hat Bugzilla report [4] is not public so
> I'm asking here if anyone has more information why this is disabled?

See the following slides:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UWEwsUY5PJS2lnUVJRMGxPZzA/view?pref=2&pli=1

At the conference, upstream maintainer explained that they were not
confident that the --user option is stable enough to be integrated in
RHEL. I understood that they feel that the feature will change a lot in
the future and they did not want to deal with all of those changes in
RHEL.


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