From b812da70594f5d40647d156f69be0eb169d6be19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:04:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "doc: Symlink daemon start-up files."

This reverts commit b7230de54b493da5a78922b4226255763b525a98.

Versions of systemd that supported symlinked service files are not yet widely
deployed.

See this thread for more information:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01199.html
---
 doc/guix.texi | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 7c7729859b..732f4312a4 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -443,8 +443,15 @@ Run the daemon, and set it to automatically start on boot.
 If your host distro uses the systemd init system, this can be achieved
 with these commands:
 
+@c Versions of systemd that supported symlinked service files are not
+@c yet widely deployed, so we should suggest that users copy the service
+@c files into place.
+@c
+@c See this thread for more information:
+@c http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01199.html
+
 @example
-# ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \
+# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \
         /etc/systemd/system/
 # systemctl start guix-daemon && systemctl enable guix-daemon
 @end example
@@ -452,8 +459,8 @@ with these commands:
 If your host distro uses the Upstart init system:
 
 @example
-# ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/
 # initctl reload-configuration
+# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/
 # start guix-daemon
 @end example