From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 01:10:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a0bdc4e-3fe4-8201-1537-bb6d3297339d@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <245bf9cd-648f-5ab1-0ff3-8bfe554bd592@gentoo.org>
On 08/27/2016 11:30 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 08/24/2016 09:42 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
>> On 08/24/2016 09:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> * no benefit put forth so far, other than that it's the same file that
>>> systemd uses, which is true but not beneficial as far as I can tell
>>
>> It's a de facto standard. Being different for the sake of being
>> different is not a virtue in cases like this.
>>
>
> And doing things because "everyone else does it" is dumb, because it
> precludes our ability to choose and makes us subject to the decisions
> made outside of our distribution. Of course, as a distro we're subject
> to outside decisions often, but what's the point of being a distro if
> you're doing things the same way everyone else does?
Is /etc/fstab dumb? How about /etc/hosts? Should we use something
different, just because we can?
--
Thanks,
Zac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-28 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-22 15:58 [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo William Hubbs
2016-08-22 16:11 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-08-22 16:39 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-22 17:03 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-22 17:32 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-22 17:28 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-22 17:51 ` Sven Vermeulen
2016-08-22 18:29 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 19:59 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2016-08-22 17:37 ` Matthew Thode
2016-08-22 17:51 ` Matthew Thode
2016-08-22 19:18 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2016-08-22 19:28 ` Hans de Graaff
2016-08-22 20:01 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-22 22:09 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-23 6:39 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-23 7:01 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-23 12:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-23 10:01 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 12:26 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-23 18:45 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 19:57 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-23 20:25 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 21:22 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 6:52 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-24 6:56 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-24 10:46 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-24 7:12 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-24 11:17 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 11:37 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-24 11:42 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 12:40 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-24 15:49 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-24 16:06 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 16:22 ` Zac Medico
2016-08-24 16:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 16:42 ` Zac Medico
2016-08-24 19:23 ` Consus
2016-08-24 22:43 ` Cédric Krier
2016-08-28 6:30 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-28 6:48 ` Michał Górny
2016-08-28 7:24 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-28 6:57 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-08-28 8:10 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2016-08-28 12:34 ` Patrick Lauer
2016-08-28 14:16 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-28 14:21 ` Michał Górny
2016-08-28 15:29 ` Patrick Lauer
2016-08-28 15:54 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-25 4:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-08-25 12:50 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-25 13:42 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-24 8:02 ` Martin Vaeth
2016-08-23 12:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-28 18:15 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-31 21:24 ` Daniel Campbell
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