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On 9 Jul 2012, at 08:34, Avleen Vig wrote:

> 
> Agreed. The idea of a "minimally functional system" itself might be
> flawed. Do you consider having `dig` and `host` essential in a
> minimally functioning system? I do.
> It's pretty f'king hard to resolve problems with installing the
> bind-utils port, if you don't know how to test your DNS :-)
> 
> The issue is also one of barrier-to-entry. By removing `dig` and
> `host`, I think we're making things unnecessarily more difficult for
> people who don't *know* FreeBSD. `dig` and `host` a universally
> standard tools for doing DNS lookups. Taking them away in base to
> replace them with something else just seems like something that won't
> really *help* users.

Indeed, 'dig' and 'host' must be present and working as expected 
in a minimally installed system.

- Mark