[cups-devel] [RFE] STR #3917: Please introduce support for installing systemd units

[Michael Sweet]

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[STR Resolved]

I'll comment here, but the bug is closed and we have no plans of changing
this.

On all other platforms that support on-demand launch of cupsd and cups-lpd,
we have (from day one) used org.cups.cupsd and org.cups.cups-lpd, and
recommended those names for anyone implementing a new on-demand method.
This was not used for the original Linux systemd support for some reason,
but now that it is part of CUPS we are following this standard naming
convention.

As for being "horrible to type", most users (including admins) will never
need to. Unlike other services, you don't actually need to stop and start
cupsd when installing new drivers, print queues, etc.

If you are updating CUPS itself you are probably updating via a package
which will handle stopping, disabling, then enabling and starting each of
the systemd files. If you are updating CUPS via source, then you are still
faced with running 6 commands before and 6 commands after installation in
order to properly update the systemd configuration (bleh!), so at that
point I fail to see how saving 10 characters per command matters. (And once
we add cups-lpd support (STR #4493) you'll have an additional 4 commands to
run before and after.)

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L3917
Version: 2.0-feature
Fix Version: 2.0-current (r11729)
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