Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:59:48 -1000 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nuking parts of the world Message-ID: <20040317145952.7C5B043D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040316023919.039fa5f0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040316094624.GA1102@isis.wad.cz> <6.0.1.1.1.20040316094749.037ce0a0@imap.sfu.ca>
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>> usr.sbin/nslookup should be part of freebsd-base-bind, not
>> freebsd-base, just like dig, host and dnsquery (there's probably
>> more).
> I thought about those for quite a while. I ended up deciding that
> while they are technically part of bind, the most likely reason why
> someone would want to remove bind is if they are replacing the *name
> server* with something else (eg, djbdns), and they would probably be
> surprised if {nslookup, dig, host, dnsquery} disappeared.
not exactly. some number of us, and i do not know what proportion,
merely want to run a version of bind different than that installed
by the default make world. currently, when we install a new system,
we have to manually take out the default dig, host, ...
in general, i suspect that second-guessing users' perception of
package boundaries, as opposed to sticking with the formal chunks,
will increase entropy.
randy
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