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>This issue report feels like it ought to be accompanied by a fix.

systemd is a stewarded FOSS, which means there's a team behind it, who are getting paid, and develop this software with release cycles, backwards compatibility guarantees, architectural decisions, and such.

These people know better. I usually only prepare fixes for FOSS one-man-show which have little to no maintenance, otherwise I prefer professionals to handle it. Sometimes "suggestion" PR is worse than a triaged issue IMO.

In this case, it's also a very ego-driven project.

Honestly, the few times I went into systemd source (to deal with how they didn't document some critical information without which I couldn't ensure coexistence of other software, software needed for functionality systemd didn't expose), I found it a total mess - combined with very loud and explicit ways the decision of the "stewards" were defended by the team, I would be frankly wary of trying to contribute anything non-trivial.