On Sunday 13 November 2011 13:50:25 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> > On Sunday 13 November 2011 13:04:57 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> >>> until we have replacement for all of its tools, it's always going to be
> >>> there.
> >> 
> >> After net-tools is no longer needed for basic setups (which I understand
> >> will be still the case after the proposed changes), why should it remain
> >> in the system set?
> > 
> > you snipped the following sentence where i explained why net-tools can't
> > be removed.  iproute2 replaces *most* of net-tools, not *all*.
> 
> And do we need *all* of net-tools for basic setups? You said that
> currently openrc uses the host and domain name tools, but iirc sysctl
> can set hostname/domainname too (note that I do not to say that using
> sysctl is preferable).

for Linux, we'll be transitioning the hostname init.d script to /etc/hostname 
and having the rc binary reading that and calling sethostname() itself.  i 
think the init.d script will stick around for a while as `hostname` should be 
a bit more portable than sethostname() ... at least, it'll be a safety net for 
people to fallback onto.
-mike