One of the goals of systemd is standardization between Linux distributions. This effort applies to configuration such as: the system hostname, console keyboard layout, console font, locale settings. Previously these had to be configured using distribution-specific config files. In the case of Fedora they were: /etc/sysconfig/network (the HOSTNAME=... setting) /etc/sysconfig/keyboard /etc/sysconfig/i18n systemd supports configuration files, which work on all distributions using systemd and even on some other distributions: /etc/hostname /etc/vconsole.conf /etc/locale.conf All the new config files are documented in manual pages: hostname(5), vconsole.conf(5), locale.conf(5) For more information about the standardization effort in general see: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-new-configuration-files.html The new config files have been used in Fedora for a couple of releases already. Not all packages have been ported though, leading to inconsistency and confusion. We must finish this porting effort to the new config files. This is a tracker bug for this purpose. FESCo asking us to do this: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/963 Wiki page to sort out the false positives before filing bugs against specific packages: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Michich/sysconfig-legacy
*** Bug 878670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 885609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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OK, let's assume that this is done. Certainly nobody is working on this from systemd side.