pkg_chk using hostname - Re: CVS commit: src/bin/hostname

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

"Roland C. Dowdeswell" <elric%imrryr.org@localhost> writes:

> People write configuration generation scripts that use the hostname
> to determine the role of the host and hence the servers started
> and general behaviour of the box.  And, in fact, it is not an
> uncommon model to have one configuration file with hostname sections
> which are conditionally parsed based on the box's hostname.  An
> example of this is pkg_chk(8) which can determine which packages
> to build or install based on the hostname.  And so on.

IMO, it is one of features that should be removed from pkg_chk actually.
It doesn't actually simplify human life enough to justify option's existance.

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