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It's significantly uglier and it also skips the helpful headers / sections in the systemd INI files. `[Unit]` and `[Service]` and `[Timer]` represent different layers of execution. Many Nix people got used to the horrible syntax of Nix, I guess? I still find Bitbake significantly more palatable than Nix.

I do appreciate build-time checking but I think this can be solved at systemd side as a separate tool just as effectively.

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Ugliness is subjective :)

But my question was around readability: were you able to understand what the snippet I shared is doing?

Re: build-time checks - but systemd hasn’t done it, and I am also unsure where exactly this verification would even take place given systemd’s configuration model. Unless you’re talking about some kind of language server or IDE integration.

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