Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:30:14 -0700 From: Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Subject: Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <CAMjP1KniXbPTUid2QTVefLBSFEfTJG1TQ13JTp-e2YxV6X0gcQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FFBD753.6050105@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> <CAMjP1K=MahXEgHM-gKHFfDpQRDXY_0LGTn0JEE0Zm43%2Bh5jfPA@mail.gmail.com> <4FFA7980.4000707@FreeBSD.org> <CAMjP1K=b8mwqe31m=OqjUV%2BF=B85L4vpfT%2BDj00a1voPB-8TwA@mail.gmail.com> <D49E4B08-AC64-48C0-B918-94A7E30AB981@exonetric.com> <4FFB46A4.5050504@FreeBSD.org> <4FFB6D37.1040300@m5p.com> <4FFBD753.6050105@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: >> 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. This is essentially what I was trying to get at :-) The proposed solution of `dig` and `host` returning "These tools can be installed through the bind-utils port, or you can use `drill`" I think would be sufficient. Having them simply disappear would be terrible, but stubs would make this possibly the least painful thing.help
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