Remove networking.hostConf option

This PR is part of the networking.* namespace cleanup. We feel that
networking.hostConf is rarely used and provides little value compared to
using environment.etc."host.conf" directly.

Provide sensible default: multi on

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/networking.nix b/nixos/modules/config/networking.nix
index a89667ea221c..3560e579e47c 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/config/networking.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/config/networking.nix
@@ -41,19 +41,6 @@ in
       '';
     };
 
-    networking.hostConf = lib.mkOption {
-      type = types.lines;
-      default = "multi on";
-      example = ''
-        multi on
-        reorder on
-        trim lan
-      '';
-      description = ''
-        The contents of <filename>/etc/host.conf</filename>. See also <citerefentry><refentrytitle>host.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
-      '';
-    };
-
     networking.timeServers = mkOption {
       default = [
         "0.nixos.pool.ntp.org"
@@ -186,7 +173,9 @@ in
         '';
 
         # /etc/host.conf: resolver configuration file
-        "host.conf".text = cfg.hostConf;
+        "host.conf".text = ''
+          multi on
+        '';
 
       } // optionalAttrs (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.libc == "glibc") {
         # /etc/rpc: RPC program numbers.
diff --git a/nixos/modules/rename.nix b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
index e392fef54dde..83b29613d9c2 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/rename.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ with lib;
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "systemd" "generator-packages" ] "Use systemd.packages instead.")
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "enableCoreFonts" ] "Use fonts.fonts = [ pkgs.corefonts ]; instead.")
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "networking" "vpnc" ] "Use environment.etc.\"vpnc/service.conf\" instead.")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "networking" "hostConf" ] "Use environment.etc.\"host.conf\" instead.")
 
     # ZSH
     (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "programs" "zsh" "enableSyntaxHighlighting" ] [ "programs" "zsh" "syntaxHighlighting" "enable" ])