On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 03:27:43PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FallbackHostname
The proposal here is to enable variants of Fedora Linux to configure
their default/fallback hostname and to set the default for variants
targetting servers (Cloud, CoreOS, IoT, Server) to `localhost`.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
With this change Fedora's server-like variants will become more
compatible with third party tools that expect a hostname of
`localhost` means the system is unconfigured. It also will mean system
administrator's will see `localhost` and assume the hostname is
unconfigured.
I'm a bit sad. This is giving in to crappy software. In particular if
you do actually configure the hostname as localhost, this software will
still assume that the hostname is unconfigured. But maybe it's easier to
accept that than to fight it :(
Zbyszek