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On 08/24/2016 11:49 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I still have to take the contents of /etc/conf.d/hostname and copy it
into /etc/hostname. I can do it now, or I can do it when I switch to
systemd -- but I still have to do it once.