Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/20 3:37 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 15:27:19 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: Why is it bad if you have it installed but

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx via arch-general
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 15:27:19 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > >> Why is it bad if you have it installed but not running? > > > > > > FS#41834 as an

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> Why is it bad if you have it installed but not running? > > > FS#41834 as an example. Or FS#28819. There is just no good reason to keep > dragging purely historic crap

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 8/23/20 10:50 AM, Geert Hendrickx via arch-general wrote: > Hi > > A number of packages depend on inetutils merely for the `hostname` command. > Common packages include xorg-xinit and mariadb, which makes that inetutils > is still installed on a large number of Arch systems, although its other

Re: [arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

2020-08-27 Thread Geert Hendrickx via arch-general
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 16:50:03 +0200, Geert Hendrickx via arch-general wrote: > Hi > > A number of packages depend on inetutils merely for the `hostname` command. > Common packages include xorg-xinit and mariadb, which makes that inetutils > is still installed on a large number of Arch systems,