systemd's environment-file parser is stricter than python-dotenv: it does not
accept spaces around '=' and handles quoting differently. A real .env with
'LLM_MODEL =' produces a key with a trailing space, which then reads as unset — the
service starts and fails later on a missing model rather than at startup.
The app already loads .env itself via python-dotenv, resolved against
WorkingDirectory, so the directive was redundant as well as harmful. Found while
cutting rixdagen.se over; the predecessor's unit carried a comment warning about
exactly this, which the generated example had dropped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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