People still don't understand what the message implies.
We have to be more verbose (or more intelligent and detect some of the
cases automatically, but that's not so easy).
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884438
}
if (carries_install_info == 0)
}
if (carries_install_info == 0)
- log_warning("The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.");
+ log_warning(
+"The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled\n"
+"using systemctl.\n"
+"Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:\n"
+"1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's\n"
+" .wants/ or .requires/ directory.\n"
+"2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has\n"
+" a requirement dependency on it.\n"
+"3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,\n"
+" D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).\n");