On 08/24/2016 04:17 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/24/2016 03:12 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
>>>
>> That seems like a fair compromise. Those who want /etc/hostname get to
>> use it, those who don't won't need to change anything.
>>
> 
> Does anyone want it? This feels like a legacy backwards compatibility
> hack that we're adding after it's obsolete, to support no one. Is there
> a single use case for it?
> 
> 
I imagine _someone_ out there wants it, otherwise we wouldn't be
discussing it.

But those of us who use /etc/conf.d/hostname shouldn't need to change
anything for a package or two that insists on /etc/hostname.

I've not yet learned/used containers so I don't personally have a use
for /etc/hostname.
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