Am 13.02.2013 20:26, schrieb Lennart Poettering: > On Wed, 13.02.13 20:23, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: > >>>> this is a very bad style which became visible with this bug >>> >>> Well, it's not as simple as it might appear. "hostnamectl set-hostname" >>> actually sets the pretty hostname (and should do that unaltered), then >>> strips all the weird chars and sets the result as the unix hostname. You >>> should always have the pretty hostname in place. >>> >>> The idea is that "Lennart's PC" as pretty hostname becomes "lennarts-pc" >>> as Unix hostname >> >> and this idea is wrong >> there is no need for a "pretty hostname" >> >> * a hostname is a hostname with it's rules >> * a pretty name is a pretty name with no technical relation > > Well, read a book. > > The pretty host name is inherent to mDNS/DNS-SD and used in Avahi, GNOME > and others for various purposes...
and there is which technical need to make it not "lennarts-pc" if you say "set-hostname" and not say "set-pretty-hostname" besides that "Lennart's PC" is technical absoluetly not needed and so this idea should never have side effects to the unix hostname - KISS principle!
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
