Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2007, Gabriel Barazer wrote: >> The "hostname" utility in coreutils-6.9 is still a very old version, and >> the "hostname" from net-tools 1.60 (released ~2001) is a better featured >> utility. Since net-tools doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, what >> about updating the "hostname" sources from coreutils, or simply remove >> it ? It would avoid duplicate tools, since we can't even disable its >> compilation at configure time. > > i dont think everything was covered properly in this thread ... yes, people > can disable hostname nicely now via configure options, but if the version > coreutils ships is old/ugly/sucky/whatever and no plans for updating, then is > there a point in including it anymore ? > > if there are plans for updating it, then i'd propose we also consider merging > the other *name utils: domainname, ypdomainname, nisdomainname > > or perhaps these could all be punted to the "miscutils" package ?
After a bit of discussion with Karl Zak, rather than have a separate miscutils packages, updating the miscutils directory of the util-linux package is better for the moment. thanks, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
