Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 23:16:04 -0700 From: Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <CAMjP1K=MahXEgHM-gKHFfDpQRDXY_0LGTn0JEE0Zm43%2Bh5jfPA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FFA7174.7050604@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <4FF2E00E.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <86bojxow6x.fsf@ds4.des.no> <89AB703D-E075-4AAC-AC1B-B358CC4E4E7F@lists.zabbadoz.net> <4FF8C3A1.9080805@FreeBSD.org> <20472.51031.308284.775990@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <4FF8C890.9030408@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1KmVDJuKw09UFXb2M6QaL1dD1ocSjMOZLtjKiYFYoF9f4Q@mail.gmail.com> <4FFA7174.7050604@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote: >> It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base. > > Sounds easy, but not so much in practice. Keeping any of the code > doesn't solve the problem of the release cycles not syncing up. And for > the vast majority of users needs the tools we will import will be more > than adequate. The question I keep asking myself is: "Is this best for the users?" I can't convince myself that it is, at the moment. While I completely agree with you reasons, and I do think that in an ideal way they'd be good, I'm just not sure they are the best thing to do for users. Linux has `nscd` which is a nice caching resolver, but most distributions still carry bind-tools in the default install. Enough people expect the tools to be there, that getting rid of them for almost any reason seems like a bad idea for low benefit. I could care less about the resolver daemon itself, I agree with what you're saying and I don't think most end users will care about that. But getting rid of dig and host in base would be bad.
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