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Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before
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On 07/09/2012 16:45, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 07/09/12 17:01, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 07/09/2012 06:45, Mark Blackman wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed, 'dig' and 'host' must be present and working as expected
>>> in a minimally installed system.
>>
>> So if you don't like the versions that get imported, install bind-tools
>> from ports.
>>
>> Doug
>>
> Doug, you are one of the people whose writings on the FreeBSD lists I
> most respect. 

Thank you for the kind words. :)

> But I think you are wrong about this one aspect of your
> proposed change.  To discover that "dig" is suddenly not in the base
> FreeBSD system any more some day would be just about the worst
> violation of the Principle of Least Astonishment for me in many
> years.  

All flippancy aside, I understand what you're saying here. The problem
is that we can't keep BIND in the base. Given that, we need to look at
how best to handle the transition.

Doug

-- 

    Change is hard.