Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@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.