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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


  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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