Hi, On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:04:49AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > This command that accepts the -f option is *not* the GNU hostname > command. > > There is a small confusion, there are two versions of GNU hostname. > One that supports -f (GNU Inetutils hostname), and one that doesn't > (GNU Coreutils hostname). The one in coreutils is not installed by > default. Maybe we should remove the one in coreutils?
Having two different GNU hostname programs is a really bad idea. If the coreutils one is not installed by default and provides just a very basic implementation, it should be removed IMHO. Thanks, Erik _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
