Avahi recently gained the feature to set the LAN name from the machine-id, see http://git.0pointer.de/?p=avahi.git;a=commitdiff;h=147cdce70b22ae7cee9fb4fe123db40952f31c9e This patch has already been committed upstream and I would like to see it included in the Gentoo ebuild. As it's a new configuration file option, it will not change the behavior of the existing ebuild. Please include this patch - thanks! Reproducible: Always
20 Apr 2013; Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org> +avahi-0.6.31-r1.ebuild, +files/avahi-0.6.31-host-name-from-machine-id.patch: Add option host-name-from-machine-id, bug #466134 I also tested and it works. I'm curious what this will be used for.