On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 08/24/2016 07:37 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >> I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be >> discussing it. > > The thread started out proposing it as a solution to a docker problem > that, it turns out, isn't a problem. Why are we still trying to fixing > something that isn't broken? Maybe I'm losing it, but nowhere in the > whole thread has anyone given a single reason why this might be useful.
You're right that the orignal purpose of the change has been debunked. So, starting over: one real benefit would be cross-compatibility with systemd. It's one less thing people would need to reconfigure when migrating to/from openrc. And before anyone starts an argument about it, I don't care what your opinion on systemd is. I'm just throwing this out there as an actual benefit of adding support for /etc/hostname to openrc.
