diff --git a/apks/photoview/APKBUILD b/apks/photoview/APKBUILD
index a9c4fac4703efd85f15ae1dfaf38584422e5f25f..56eeb8b948b387a3ccdc6a0589cf9548ff77eee7 100644
--- a/apks/photoview/APKBUILD
+++ b/apks/photoview/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Gabriel Giovanini <mail@gabrielgio.me>
 pkgname=photoview
 pkgver=2.3.13
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers"
 url="https://github.com/photoview/photoview"
 arch="x86_64"
diff --git a/apks/photoview/photoview.confd b/apks/photoview/photoview.confd
index 0c90d9ef153572ecc7c734f5ea4f0e96844fbe7e..cb062b6e4d97c0d65aa831ab15a6f98db620069c 100644
--- a/apks/photoview/photoview.confd
+++ b/apks/photoview/photoview.confd
@@ -15,3 +15,8 @@ # disable features
 PHOTOVIEW_DISABLE_FACE_RECOGNITION=1
 PHOTOVIEW_DISABLE_VIDEO_ENCODING=0
 PHOTOVIEW_DISABLE_RAW_PROCESSING=0
+
+
+# comment this out for old style service management
+#supervisor=supervise-daemon
+#command_user=photoview:photoview
diff --git a/apks/photoview/photoview.initd b/apks/photoview/photoview.initd
index 04a799c90d4c2b5910bce2028724061911ee584b..bbc3cda9d5ed8a6c815598d0c0f2884316f0d6ec 100644
--- a/apks/photoview/photoview.initd
+++ b/apks/photoview/photoview.initd
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ supervisor=supervise-daemon
 
 command="/usr/bin/photoview"
 command_background="yes"
-command_user="photoview:photoview"
+: ${command_user:="photoview:photoview"}
 
 # database
 export PHOTOVIEW_DATABASE_DRIVER