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