From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2EE62138330 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 08:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20F7BE0B0D; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 08:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CB0BE0AC3 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 08:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (ip68-5-185-102.oc.oc.cox.net [68.5.185.102]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D36834072E for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 08:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20160822155808.GA16219@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <1471894124.32381.0.camel@gentoo.org> <20160822220925.GB18116@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20160823195746.GA21460@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <24d9469d-fa6f-ffde-797e-420eca01d2a1@gentoo.org> <45fe53a7-626f-62af-398c-2397aedb3064@gentoo.org> <8edbc51b-366b-e32f-4e8d-2ca894f77ca6@gentoo.org> <68746884-3a34-944d-4649-07c282ea38cd@gentoo.org> <2ecb3f7d-4b60-bc34-2673-aad6d2dc5ae9@gentoo.org> <245bf9cd-648f-5ab1-0ff3-8bfe554bd592@gentoo.org> From: Zac Medico Message-ID: <7a0bdc4e-3fe4-8201-1537-bb6d3297339d@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 01:10:05 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <245bf9cd-648f-5ab1-0ff3-8bfe554bd592@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 300f7d0e-12ed-40bc-8ca8-99744252b311 X-Archives-Hash: 6f1fe2f795fb97d6c1d6644c44896417 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