[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#619244: /etc/machine-id

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:23:48PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> writes:
> > On the other hand, I'm somewhat curious what upstream actually *uses*
> > the machine-id for, and why a machine needs a unique identifier.
> The only use of the machine-id in Debian that I could find is within the
> journal:
[...]
> Given that the file replaces the old DBus machine-id, if you consider
> that, we have a few more calls in the archive:
[...]
> Also, http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html
> explains:

Thanks for the explanation.  That mail from me is quite old, and I'd
since found out a lot more about systemd and why it wants machine-id. :)

- Josh Triplett