Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:26:51 -0700 From: Johnson David <davidjohnson@siemens.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind within src-contrib Message-ID: <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA015190FD@mvwcim1a.acuson.com>
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From: Frank Laszlo [mailto:laszlof@tvog.net] > How would you like a system with no host(1), dig(1), or nslookup(1)? I > personally consider these tools essential for a freebsd system. Are these utilities used anywhere else in FreeBSD, such as the startup scripts? Are they something required by the vast majority of users? If not, I wouldn't consider them "essential". That doesn't mean I would move them to ports, as there's a lot of other non-essential software in the base system (biff, indent, etc.). David
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