Did quadlet changed the location of the .service units?

[DevDorrejo]

While working with Quadlet, I found that after creating and generating the .service units from .pod, .container, .volume, or .network files, the resulting service files are stored in:

/run/user/${UID}/systemd/generator/

These are ephemeral, auto-generated units created by systemd at runtime. Since they reside under /run, they will disappear after a reboot.

Because of this, these units cannot be enabled permanently using: systemctl --user enable --now .service

at my understand, Instead, the proper way to make them persistent is to keep the .service files in:

${HOME}/.config/systemd/user

It would be right this approach or I am ignoring something?

[Luap99]

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.generator.html

A generator is supposed to put files there, the point is that they are just a temporary service file that gets replaced every time you run systemctl daemon-reload or reboot.

The quadlet generator is "enabling" the units by default.
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html#enabling-unit-files