Comment # 10 on bug 1090785 from Tejas Guruswamy

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #8)
> Tejas, it seems to me that your report contains 2 different bugs: the one
> about user services enabled by default and the wrong status reported by
> systemctl.
> 
> Could you open a new bug for systemctl status ?

You're right, this is separate. I have filed boo#1093851 .

As an aside, understanding the systemd architecture a bit better I now see that
there are three modes of operation:

--system
--global (connect to user daemon, operate on global directory)
--user (connect to user daemon, operate on home directory)

so combined --user --global is actually an options clash (last option takes
priority, so we've been getting away with it in the macros).
This error exists in the upstream systemd-rpm-macros code.
I have filed https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9027.