From 69924ed702e14592ba0aae1510fca652c7d306df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= 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 - .desktop files. + once with the same effect. Lone semicolons may be escaped as \;. 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 @@ systemd.scope5. + 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 .desktop file + format. + Unit files are loaded from a set of paths determined during compilation, described in the next section.