FS#35397 - [filesystem] hosts file no longer needed
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Opened by ifaigios (ifaigios) - Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:56 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 13:49 GMT
Opened by ifaigios (ifaigios) - Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:56 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 13:49 GMT
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From the changelog of systemd-203:
* nss-myhostname will now also resolve "localhost" implicitly. This makes /etc/hosts an optional file and nicely handles that on IPv6 ::1 maps to both "localhost" and the local hostname. This means that the hosts file no longer needs to be shipped in new installations but instead could be strictly optional. Removing it from the filesystem package allows to get rid of an additional configuration file. |
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Closed by Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 13:49 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: No benefit, potentially problematic.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 13:49 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: No benefit, potentially problematic.
Lack of a hosts file may cause programs to misbehave, and in strange ways -- apache is one of them, I'm sure there's others.
Big -1 from me.
See https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-October/023904.html