wooooah horsey, whoah!

OK...

1. I could have deleted the line by myself, but I didn't because I've
never touched /etc/host.conf so far, and because it belonged to glibc, I
didn't want to stuff around with it.  My system is working, even though
I get this "error" message, so I left it as is until I was sure.

2. Yes I am running an unstable system (~x86), and that includes glibc,
gcc, kernels, and every other package I have installed.  I am aware that
from time to time this may cause problems, but I do it for two reasons:
 a) I like to help as much as I can in detecting and reporting bugs
before they make it to x86 (or other archs), because even though I'm
employed as one, I'm not much of a programmer :P
 b) I like having new features and fixes sooner rather than later.

3. Thanks for the comments, especially from Rumen quoting the einfo
lines - I only have warnings mailed to me so I missed that one.

4. I think I will file a bug - IMHO there should have been a
new /etc/host.conf, which would have then been labelled ._cfg_host.conf
(or whatever) and I would have resolved the problem myself.  If it got
me worried, it's going to get a lot more people worried when it hits
x86.

cya,
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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>

... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage
from beginning to end.
                -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"

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