I personally do not like the idea of putting the --randomize flag in the hosts file. I say, "let the hosts file be the hosts file". Instead, I much prefer that all behavior modifications go on the command-line, or in a "resource configuration" file -- i.e., a dot-rc file, like .distccrc.
The history there is that we wanted to satisfy people who wanted to have a couple preferred hosts (like localhost) before the randomized ones.
Only the hosts after --randomize are randomized, I think.
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