Currently ,In NixOS, enableDefaultPath defaults to true for both system services (systemd.services) and user services (systemd.user.services).
From the source comments, I understand that NixOS gives services a minimal default PATH containing common system utilities. I can see why that is useful for system services.
What I’m questioning is why the same default applies to user services, where it overrides the PATH inherited from the systemd user manager. This departs from systemd’s default behavior for user services. From my perspective it doesn’t make any sense.
Is enableDefaultPath = true for user services a deliberate design choice, or just a consequence of sharing the service option type with system services? If is the latter, I think maybe we have the reason to change it?