[arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 15:27:19 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> >> Why is it bad if you have it installed but not running?
> > 
> > 
> > FS#41834 as an example.  Or FS#28819.  There is just no good reason
> > to keep dragging purely historic crap like inetutils on so many Arch
> > systems just because a few common tools want `hostname`.
> 
> That's just a bug in packaging. :p It's the same bug if you genuinely
> want to have telnet installed due to being a fan of telnet, and install
> it manually.



Ok, FS#61041 then ;-) (still open)


Anyway, the next sentence still stands; it's just deprecated.

We made efforts deprecating ifconfig years ago[*], then why
not rsh and friends?


	Geert


[*] https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/


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