On Monday 23 July 2007, Gabriel Barazer wrote: > The "hostname" utility in coreutils-6.9 is still a very old version, and > the "hostname" from net-tools 1.60 (released ~2001) is a better featured > utility. Since net-tools doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, what > about updating the "hostname" sources from coreutils, or simply remove > it ? It would avoid duplicate tools, since we can't even disable its > compilation at configure time.
i dont think everything was covered properly in this thread ... yes, people can disable hostname nicely now via configure options, but if the version coreutils ships is old/ugly/sucky/whatever and no plans for updating, then is there a point in including it anymore ? if there are plans for updating it, then i'd propose we also consider merging the other *name utils: domainname, ypdomainname, nisdomainname or perhaps these could all be punted to the "miscutils" package ? -mike
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