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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 08:10:19
Message-Id: 7a0bdc4e-3fe4-8201-1537-bb6d3297339d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo by Daniel Campbell
1 On 08/27/2016 11:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
2 > On 08/24/2016 09:42 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> On 08/24/2016 09:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
4 >>> * no benefit put forth so far, other than that it's the same file that
5 >>> systemd uses, which is true but not beneficial as far as I can tell
6 >>
7 >> It's a de facto standard. Being different for the sake of being
8 >> different is not a virtue in cases like this.
9 >>
10 >
11 > And doing things because "everyone else does it" is dumb, because it
12 > precludes our ability to choose and makes us subject to the decisions
13 > made outside of our distribution. Of course, as a distro we're subject
14 > to outside decisions often, but what's the point of being a distro if
15 > you're doing things the same way everyone else does?
16
17 Is /etc/fstab dumb? How about /etc/hosts? Should we use something
18 different, just because we can?
19 --
20 Thanks,
21 Zac