Although -systemd has been specified the systemd startup is still provided. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: [I] dev-lang/php Available versions: (5.4) 5.4.39 5.4.40 5.4.41 (5.5) 5.5.22 5.5.23 5.5.24 5.5.25 (5.6) ~5.6.7 ~5.6.8 ~5.6.9 {apache2 bcmath berkdb bzip2 calendar cdb cgi cjk +cli crypt +ctype curl curlwrappers debug embed enchant exif +fileinfo +filter firebird flatfile fpm frontbase ftp gd gdbm gmp +hash +iconv imap inifile intl iodbc ipv6 +json kerberos ldap ldap-sasl libedit libmysqlclient mhash mssql mysql mysqli mysqlnd nls oci8-instant-client odbc +opcache pcntl pdo +phar +posix postgres qdbm readline recode selinux +session sharedmem +simplexml snmp soap sockets spell sqlite ssl sybase-ct systemd sysvipc threads tidy +tokenizer truetype unicode vpx wddx +xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xpm xslt zip zlib} Installed versions: 5.5.25(5.5)(09:56:30 PM 05/22/2015)(apache2 berkdb bzip2 calendar cgi cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter flatfile fpm ftp gd gdbm gmp hash iconv imap inifile ipv6 json kerberos ldap mhash mysql mysqli nls odbc opcache pdo phar posix readline session sharedmem simplexml snmp soap sockets spell sqlite ssl tidy tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xpm xslt zip zlib -bcmath -cdb -cjk -debug -embed -enchant -firebird -frontbase -intl -iodbc -ldap-sasl -libedit -libmysqlclient -mssql -oci8-instant-client -pcntl -postgres -qdbm -recode -selinux -sybase-ct -systemd -sysvipc -threads -vpx -wddx) Homepage: http://php.net/ Description: The PHP language runtime engine: CLI, CGI, FPM/FastCGI, Apache2 and embed SAPIs # ls -l /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm@5.5.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 May 22 21:56 /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm@5.5.service Expected Results: no systemd profile.
As written in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Systemd/Ebuild_policy unit file installation is unconditional.
Comment 1 is correct service files, init scripts, and small text files are always installed. The USE flag is meant for additional functionality such as linking to a systemd library.