Comment 2 for bug 1046405

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: hostname.conf should prefer kernel cmdline 'hostname=' to contents of /etc/hostname

I discussed this with slangasek in #ubuntu-devel today, and he preferred not to have this in /etc/init/hostname.conf as it does incur a for for the shell, and can be done elsewhere.

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/09/05/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t16:57