On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:23:48PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > > On the other hand, I'm somewhat curious what upstream actually *uses* > > the machine-id for, and why a machine needs a unique identifier. > The only use of the machine-id in Debian that I could find is within the > journal: [...] > Given that the file replaces the old DBus machine-id, if you consider > that, we have a few more calls in the archive: [...] > Also, http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html > explains:
Thanks for the explanation. That mail from me is quite old, and I'd since found out a lot more about systemd and why it wants machine-id. :) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
