Comment 2 for bug 1626986

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: snapd should allows snaps to define systemd unit Alias names

Sprinkling a lot of hacky patches like https://code.launchpad.net/~morphis/netplan/+git/netplan/+merge/306607 into Ubuntu is not the right way forward -- if we want to provide plumbing services like NetworkManager, bluez, or cups as snaps, then they need to be able to assume the expected service unit and D-Bus .service files. Let's rather do this properly via a declarative alias than hardcoding dynamically generated (!) snap service names in unrelated code.

These snaps need to be manually reviewed anyway as they have a lot of privileges and provide central services to both the OS itself and to other snaps.