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

On 16/06/14 07:35 PM, Leonid Isaev 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?

Thanks,

It's likely just in base because it was viewed as convenient. You can temporarily change the hostname with `sysctl kernel.hostname=foo` alone anyway. AFAIK it's a bug if there's an implicit dependency on base, although it's not clear if an implicit make dependency on base is allowed as it is for base-devel. It would be nice if that was spelled out clearly instead of left up to community documentation on the wiki.