On 08/24/2016 04:17 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/24/2016 03:12 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> >> That seems like a fair compromise. Those who want /etc/hostname get to >> use it, those who don't won't need to change anything. >> > > Does anyone want it? This feels like a legacy backwards compatibility > hack that we're adding after it's obsolete, to support no one. Is there > a single use case for it? > > I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be discussing it.
But those of us who use /etc/conf.d/hostname shouldn't need to change anything for a package or two that insists on /etc/hostname. I've not yet learned/used containers so I don't personally have a use for /etc/hostname. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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