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Re: proposal : remove hostname from coreutils
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: proposal : remove hostname from coreutils |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:52:28 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061116) |
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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 ?
After a bit of discussion with Karl Zak,
rather than have a separate miscutils packages,
updating the miscutils directory of the util-linux package
is better for the moment.
thanks,
Pádraig.