@moreentropy interesting, and useful, find. I wonder if this is intended. The only mention I could find in podman-systemd.unit(5) was about user units:
For unit files placed in subdirectories within /etc/containers/systemd/user/${UID}/ and the other user unit search paths, Quadlet will recursively search and run the unit files present in these subdirectories.
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New Blog post out now!

I'm talking a bit about my progess of this months project and about the new one for April.

5 Minute read time, nothing big but I think I covered the most important points.

Check it out and let me hear what you think about it!

https://blog.spoljarevic.sh/project-for-april-zammad-quadlets/

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Project for April: Zammad Quadlets

As you may have noticed when looking at my Repos, there's a new one. This is for my April project which I'm already working on. Converting the Compose of the Ticket System Zammad into fully working Quadlets files. At the time of writing this (14.03.2026), I already got

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