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

2020-08-23 Thread Geert Hendrickx via arch-general
Hi A number of packages depend on inetutils merely for the `hostname` command. Common packages include xorg-xinit and mariadb, which makes that inetutils is still installed on a large number of Arch systems, although its other components like rcp, rsh, talk, telnet ... and their server counterpart

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Guus, > That said, it's still a good idea to restart the running services (or > the whole server when the kernel is updated), but in principle you can > just continue working while updating and reboot sometime later. IIRC, some other distros re-start a server as part of the package-upgrade pro