Running litestream as a systemd user / allow to specify custom configuration location

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I want to run litestream as a systemd service in user mode (systemctl --user app).

I want to run it in user mode, because my app server service is running in user mode as well
and I can/want to add it as a dependency in systemd to the app server to automatically be stopped/started on redeployments of the app server. (Where is some symlink magic happening on deployment that I do not feel comfortable to do while the app server and/or litestream are accessing the files)

I have used the search to find that there was an config option earlier in 2021 #255
But it no longer seems to work?
I tried

• litestream -config /home/me/litestream_dev.yml
• litestream replicate -config /home/me/litestream_dev.yml

Is where a way to specify a custom config location?
Are where specific reasons why litestream must run in systemd as a root user?

[adaptive-shield-matrix]

found the docs
https://litestream.io/reference/replicate/