Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:14:12 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Sergey Vinogradov <boogie@lazybytes.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND in the base (Was: Re: tmux(1) in base) Message-ID: <19e9a5dc0909221014o14e88c96ubf32142b85d781d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AB90448.9020706@FreeBSD.org> References: <20090921112657.GW95398@hoeg.nl> <20090922135435.36a3d40e@lazybytes.org> <4AB90448.9020706@FreeBSD.org>
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... and what about sendmail?? couldn't it be easily replaced by DMA Regards Gonzalo On 9/22/09, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > Sergey Vinogradov wrote: >> The things in the base system I always wondered about are sendmail >> and bind9. These are pretty heavy, and definitely are not used in every >> single installation. Maybe someday I'll see sendmail and bind9 in ports >> instead of base system. And yes, I know about WITHOUT_BIND= and >> WITHOUT_SENDMAIL= :) > > For about the millionth time ... :) > > I would be perfectly happy to remove BIND, however most people want > some or all of dig, host, or nslookup in the base, which means that > about 60% or more of the BIND source code has to be there to allow > that. From there it's a pretty simple leap to "let's build it all then > because that's how we've always done it." > > The next-best thing would be to flip the knobs so that we're not > building named and friends by default which I'm happy to do if people > want it done, but no one ever comes up with a clear consensus to do it. > > > Doug > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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