--- /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.20.ebuild       2012-10-23 15:52:35.000000000 -0400
+++ coreutils-8.20.ebuild       2012-11-21 16:08:06.232337331 -0500
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd"
-IUSE="acl caps gmp nls selinux static userland_BSD vanilla xattr"
+IUSE="acl caps gmp hostname nls selinux static userland_BSD vanilla xattr"
 
 LIB_DEPEND="acl? ( sys-apps/acl[static-libs] )
        caps? ( sys-libs/libcap )
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
        !<sci-chemistry/ccp4-6.1.1"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
        static? ( ${LIB_DEPEND} )
+       hostname? ( !sys-apps/net-tools )
        app-arch/xz-utils"
 
 src_prepare() {
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@
 }
 
 src_configure() {
-       local myconf=''
+       local myconf='' hostname=''
        if tc-is-cross-compiler && [[ ${CHOST} == *linux* ]] ; then
                export fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes #311569
                export gl_cv_func_realpath_works=yes #416629
@@ -74,15 +75,18 @@
        use static && append-ldflags -static && sed -i '/elf_sys=yes/s:yes:no:' configure #321821
        use selinux || export ac_cv_{header_selinux_{context,flash,selinux}_h,search_setfilecon}=no #301782
        use userland_BSD && myconf="${myconf} -program-prefix=g --program-transform-name=s/stat/nustat/"
-       # kill/uptime - procps
-       # groups/su   - shadow
-       # hostname    - net-tools
+       if use hostname; then
+               hostname=,hostname
+       fi
+       # else hostname - net-tools
+       # kill/uptime   - procps
+       # groups/su     - shadow
        econf \
                --with-packager="Gentoo" \
                --with-packager-version="${PVR} (p${PATCH_VER:-0})" \
                --with-packager-bug-reports="http://bugs.gentoo.org/" \
                --enable-install-program="arch" \
-               --enable-no-install-program="groups,hostname,kill,su,uptime" \
+               --enable-no-install-program="groups,kill,su,uptime$hostname" \
                --enable-largefile \
                $(use caps || echo --disable-libcap) \
                $(use_enable nls) \