Re: [arch-general] inetutils and the 'base' group

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> 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