On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a reason why core/inetutils is in base group, i.e. which > packages implicitly rely on it? It was added to base around Aug. 2011 ago, > I > think because of hostname(1), but shouldn't this functionality be now > provided > by hostnamectl? > > Many packages/tools expect the presence of a hostname binary. A symlink to hostnamectl won't work because the output format/information is different. > Thanks, > -- > Leonid Isaev > GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 > C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D >
