Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:04:31 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Nuking parts of the world Message-ID: <20040317200431.GB46126@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <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> <20040317145952.7C5B043D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:59:48AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> 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.
>
There are plans to add support for "make uninsall" to bsd.*.mk files,
FWIW.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org
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