Clarified which python-systemd module is required.

nand2 · Oct 27, 2018 · c0655ad · c0655ad
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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ UNRELEASED CHANGES
   * Fixed a potential bug in s3qlrm that would probably lead to a
     filesystem crash (hasn't actually been observed though).
 
+  * Clarified installation instructions: S3QL requires the official
+    systemd Python module, not the (third-party) module on PyPi.
+
 2018-10-08, S3QL 2.31
 
   * Object removal now makes more use of parallelism.

diff --git a/rst/installation.rst b/rst/installation.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ that is not the case.
   * `requests <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/>`_ (optional,
     required for OAuth2 authentication with Google Storage)
   * `systemd <https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd>`_ (optional,
-    for enabling systemd support).
+    for enabling systemd support). Do *not* install the module from
+    PyPi, this is from a third-party developer and incompatible with
+    the official module from the systemd developers.
   * `apsw <https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw>`_, version 3.7.0 or
     newer.
   * `llfuse <https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/python-llfuse/>`_, any