From 69924ed702e14592ba0aae1510fca652c7d306df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:30:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] man: remove advice to avoid setting the same var more than
once
So far the compatibility with .desktop settings hasn't been imporant
at all, and we do not want people to write convoluted unit
files.
---
man/systemd.service.xml | 6 +-----
man/systemd.unit.xml | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index ca297ba..8f9137c 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -321,11 +321,7 @@
(these semicolons must be passed as
separate words). Alternatively, this
directive may be specified more than
- once with the same effect. However,
- the latter syntax is not recommended
- for compatibility with parsers
- suitable for XDG
- <filename>.desktop</filename> files.
+ once with the same effect.
Lone semicolons may be escaped as
<literal>\;</literal>. If the empty
string is assigned to this option, the
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 029392c..77127ff 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -120,6 +120,17 @@
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.scope</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
+ <para>Various settings are allowed to be specified
+ more than once, in which case the interpretation
+ depends on the setting. Often, multiple settings form
+ a list, and setting to an empty value "resets", which
+ means that previous assignments are ignored. When this
+ is allowed, it is mentioned in the description of the
+ setting. Note that using multiple assignments to the
+ same value makes the unit file incompatible with
+ parsers for the XDG <filename>.desktop</filename> file
+ format.</para>
+
<para>Unit files are loaded from a set of paths
determined during compilation, described in the next section.
</para>