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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:13:20 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Joshua Bell <josh@oplink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bind within src-contrib
Message-ID:  <86oe5u3pxb.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20051012113622.26a85118.josh@oplink.net> (Joshua Bell's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:36:22 -0500")
References:  <20051012113622.26a85118.josh@oplink.net>

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Joshua Bell <josh@oplink.net> writes:
> I was attempting to build a minimal supfile, when I noticed that
> bind was included within contrib.  This to me seems like something
> that should be included within the ports tree, or atleast be
> included in a portion of the tree with less crucial software.

BIND has been a part of BSD since its inception (the B in BIND and BSD
both stand for Berkeley), and parts of it are essential to the system.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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