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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at 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
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