Which is the simplest way to exclude an user from a launchd agent?

Question

I have some launchd plists that are now placed at the administrator per-user level, particularly inside:

• /Library/LaunchAgents
• /Library/LaunchDaemons

I'd like to avoid that some of those services could start only for one user (possibly avoiding to move all the plists to each ~/Library/LaunchAgents), which is the simplest way?

Edit: To restate, if I have an agent in /Library/LaunchAgent, is there a way to disable it for a particular user or group of users, without copying the plist into each ~/Library/LaunchAgent?

Answer 1

That user would have to explicitly unload the system level job to try to put the cart before the horse.

There is no process to delay a system job until a user logs in so you would have to somehow add that into the launchd code as an extension. It is open source, but it seems like a big undertaking and breaks with the flow of the tool.