Replace nettools with hostname-debian #1493
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As far as I understand we include nettools for its hostname executable used by the Sys-Hostname-Long perl package. But if we just need that then the hostname-debian package provides a simpler and better maintained version.
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As far as I understand we include nettools for its hostname executable used by the Sys-Hostname-Long perl package. But if we just need that then the hostname-debian package provides a simpler and better maintained version.
cc @SuperSandro2000 for the nixpkgs module.