From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 6:38: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EAC37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from anand.org (natgw.msi-cellular.com [217.113.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B275843F1E for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:38:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arb@anand.org) Received: from arb by mobile.anand.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18c4y2-00044H-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:38:02 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:38:02 +0100 From: Anand Buddhdev To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9 Message-ID: <20030124143802.GA15631@anand.org> References: <20030123232922.GA12051@teddy.fas.com> <20030124133951.GA15457@anand.org> <20030124140519.GA60034@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030124140519.GA60034@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:05:19PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > I have always found this to be a problem with FreeBSD: why can't sendmail, > > bind and the other contributed software be made optional at install > > time, so that the base system is not cluttered with old software when > > we install new versions? The tight coupling of contributed software into > > the base system is in my opinion not a good idea. > > This question has been asked and answered numerous times on this list. > Yes, it can be done (I believe there's a project "libh" or something > working on it amongst other things), but it's a lot of work. Are you > volunteering to help? Yes, I'd like to, where/if I can. How do I get involved in the project? -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message