ERL_DIST_PORT=<port> does not allow validator to completely start

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Looking through the miner shell script in bin, it accommodates the use of the env var ERL_DIST_PORT, but running miner daemon will never complete if I set ERL_DIST_PORT. My end goal is to not start EPMD but just set a port. Setting a port for distributed erlang by default skips the startup of EPMD in the miner shell script. I am wondering if there's some guidance that could be given as to the best way to use this method?

Here in the miner shell script:

# line 666 in miner 
if [ "$ERL_DIST_PORT" ]; then
    if [  "11.1" = "$(printf "%s\n11.1" "${ERTS_VSN}" | sort -V | head -n1)" ] ; then
        # unless set by the user, set start_epmd to false when ERL_DIST_PORT is used
        if [ ! "$START_EPMD" ]; then
            EXTRA_DIST_ARGS="-erl_epmd_port ${ERL_DIST_PORT} -start_epmd false"
        else
            EXTRA_DIST_ARGS="-erl_epmd_port ${ERL_DIST_PORT}"
        fi
    else
        EXTRA_DIST_ARGS="-kernel inet_dist_listen_min ${ERL_DIST_PORT} -kernel inet_dist_listen_max ${ERL_DIST_PORT}"
    fi
fi