From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 17:26:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFA816A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:26:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidjohnson@siemens.com) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6387343D46 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidjohnson@siemens.com) Received: from mvwcim1a.acuson.com ([157.226.95.42]:1209 helo=mvwcim1a.ww005.siemens.net) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EPkNS-0004CH-3b for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:26:54 -0700 Received: by mvwcim1a.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:26:54 -0700 Message-ID: <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA015190FD@mvwcim1a.acuson.com> From: Johnson David To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:26:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Bind within src-contrib X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:26:56 -0000 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