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This text was written a long time ago, when we mostly talked about "service files". Strictly speaking, we don't need a "file", because the service might be just an instance of a template, or an alias to another service. So let's use the more modern parlance of "service units". https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1623781#c21
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