what's the rationale to enable the gnupg sockets in post_install of the
package?

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/install?h=packages/gnupg#n21

I don't disagree that the sockets maybe should be enabled (I have them
enabled for me), it's just a strange way to enable them in
post_install, and linking them in /etc/

Why doesn't the PKGBUILD make the symlinks in
/usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/ ?


I did that in the pulseaudio package at first and people complained that they couldn't "disable" the pulseaudio socket and "mask" also prevented a
manual start.

Hence I moved pulseaudio from static symlinks to enable/disable
post_install.

GnuPG follows this.


dbus does that for ex.


The DBus `make install` sets it up that way; it wasn't a downstream
decision.


Packages should never enable or start any services. The same holds for sockets IMHO. From my point of view the appropriate solution would be a message in post_install stating the necessity of enabling the socket/service.

georg

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