From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 6:43:49 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 4260637B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:43:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D6043F43 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:43:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0OEjfJi060332; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:45:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0OEjf7n060331; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:45:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:45:41 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9 Message-ID: <20030124144541.GA60296@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20030123232922.GA12051@teddy.fas.com> <20030124133951.GA15457@anand.org> <20030124140519.GA60034@ei.bzerk.org> <20030124143802.GA15631@anand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030124143802.GA15631@anand.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 03:38:02PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev typed: > 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? Not sure, but there's a dedicated mailing list (freebsd-libh), so maybe you could ask there. > > -- > Anand Buddhdev > http://anand.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message