On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Seblu
But to have a complete hostname configuration, we have to take in consideration, in our current archlinux setups, we needs to edit /etc/rc.conf et /etc/hosts to have a right "hostname", "hostname -f" and "domainname".
Having to edit /etc/hosts is indeed a pain, we should just ship http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/, which does the correct thing for us automatically without requiring /etc/hosts to contain the hostname.
About locale.conf, imho the bug report was closed too quickly, the current solution doesn't correctly adress the issue. Inheritance of locales should not be done by a login shell but by process granting access (by example pam). This would fix issues with *dm started by inittab.
As far as I understood the report, the problem was fixed (the locale.sh is not re-sourced if you start a non-login shell). However, what you describe sounds like a possibly nicer way to implement it, so I'd be interested in seeing some patches ;-) Cheers, Tom