[arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:51 PM, James Rayner <james at archlinux.org> wrote:
> The only reason net-tools was still a requirement was setting hostname.
> A change similar to initscripts [2] at line 121 of
> src/connections/ethernet [3] would suffice.

What is the reason the hostname is set in netcfg? Do we ever want it
to change from what was set on boot?

-t