GNU bug report logs - #16507
24.3; systemd unit for a GNU Emacs daemon

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp Moeller <bootsarehax <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:48:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 16507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger <at> c-plusplus.de>
Cc: 16507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16507: [RFC] Add a systemd service file for dealing with
 emacs --daemon.
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:03:23 -0500

Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:

> I'm a bit afraid that using the directory given by systemd might be
> confusing because it won't respect the prefix set by the user. E.g.,
> Emacs being installed to /usr/local but the service file going to
> /usr/lib/systemd/user.

I agree that that is an issue. Personally I think you should respect
the user's prefix. For example, I often install software as a non-root
user into my local software space, and it's always annoying when
things try to install files into /usr (which fails due to lack of
permission).

It's going to take a bit of know-how to actually enable the service,
and I think people doing that will be able to cope with copying
the file to the appropriate location if they need to.
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