On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 03:10:01PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> Split out "coreutils-hostname" from coreutils. This new package should >> conflicts=(net-tools) and be added to base. Also, net-tools should be >> rebuilt to add provides=(coreutils-hostname). > > provides should be very general. 'hostname' would be more appropriate.
Good point. In that case, I guess both packages should provide 'hostname'. > We shouldn't make people install net-tools if the goal all along has > been to move away from it. My vote is to split off the hostname binary > from inetutils, which is just as full featured as hostname from > net-tools. That's probably even better then. It looks like inetutils is well maintained in core anyway, so no objections from me. Cheers, Tom
