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.
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