systemd guidelines has this section
"Although environment files are easy to use, upstream systemd recommends a different approach. Their recommendation for administrators who need to reconfigure systemd .service files is to copy them from /lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and modify them there. Unit files in /etc/systemd/system override those in /lib/systemd/system if they otherwise carry the same name."
This is not what upstream recommends anymore.
Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_customize_a_unit_file.2F_add_a_custom_unit_file.3F and more importantly the man page referenced for upstream recommendations. Please change the guidelines to use this reference.
Current guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#EnvironmentFiles_and_support_for_.2Fetc.2Fsysconfig_files
Possible text:
Their recommendation for administrators who need to reconfigure systemd .service files is to create a /etc/systemd/system/foo.service.d directory and place a .conf file there with the desired unit file configuration options. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_customize_a_unit_file.2F_add_a_custom_unit_file.3F for more details.
We talked about this in today's meeting (http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-10-23/fpc.2014-10-23-16.01.txt):
Please also modify the following note
"Systemd unit .service files must not be marked as %config files. If the user wants to reconfigure a .service file he should copy the .service file from /lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and edit it there. Unit files in /etc/systemd/system override those in /lib/systemd/system if they carry the same name"
I've removed the two indicated paragraphs, and also removed the outdated (and inappropriate for the guidelines) text about users altering .service files.
I don't think this needs an announcement since it's just the removal of outdated text so I'm just going to close this ticket.
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