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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:37:53
Message-Id: d5415e40-7832-6a6c-dffe-bf57fb01fd52@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 08/24/2016 04:17 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 08/24/2016 03:12 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
3 >>>
4 >> That seems like a fair compromise. Those who want /etc/hostname get to
5 >> use it, those who don't won't need to change anything.
6 >>
7 >
8 > Does anyone want it? This feels like a legacy backwards compatibility
9 > hack that we're adding after it's obsolete, to support no one. Is there
10 > a single use case for it?
11 >
12 >
13 I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be
14 discussing it.
15
16 But those of us who use /etc/conf.d/hostname shouldn't need to change
17 anything for a package or two that insists on /etc/hostname.
18
19 I've not yet learned/used containers so I don't personally have a use
20 for /etc/hostname.
21 --
22 Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>