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On 3/18/24 20:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> I was thinking more about code being written for in-house use by
> particular customers--I should have made that clear.

That is fair enough.

> However, what you say is true for open-source code that is being
> published. Though I suspect it would still be helpful to provide some info
> about how interlocking processes are supposed to fit together, and
> systemd .service files could serve as a lingua franca for that, even for
> distros that don’t use systemd. The declarative systemd unit-file syntax
> should be easier to translate to other forms than perhaps going the other
> way.

I agree that it could be useful for a project to provide some barebones 
units for that. If you are, for example, a maintainer for devuan (a 
systemd less debian) I imagine you will appreciate those being there for 
documentation rather than not.