Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:20:10 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nuking parts of the world Message-ID: <20040316102010.GC1102@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040316094749.037ce0a0@imap.sfu.ca> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040316023919.039fa5f0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040316094624.GA1102@isis.wad.cz> <6.0.1.1.1.20040316094749.037ce0a0@imap.sfu.ca>
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# colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk / 2004-03-16 09:58:36 +0000:
> At 09:46 16/03/2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > usr.sbin/nslookup should be part of freebsd-base-bind, not
> > freebsd-base, just like dig, host and dnsquery (there's probably
> > more).
>
> I thought about those for quite a while. I ended up deciding that
> while they are technically part of bind, the most likely reason why
> someone would want to remove bind is if they are replacing the *name
> server* with something else (eg, djbdns), and they would probably be
> surprised if {nslookup, dig, host, dnsquery} disappeared. The best
> solution might be to tag those four as freebsd-base-bind-client... as
> I said, this was a one-day hack job with all sorts of rough edges.
maybe -bind-server and -bind-clients would fit the bill for both
of us. this is about granularity after all.
on a related note: most of my djbdns installations are because of
the tools, not the servers, and most users of the djbdns servers
use the tools (dnsq{,r}, dns{name,ip}, ...) exclusively, judging
from the mailing list at least.
> > isn't the freebsd- prefix enough? I mean, from the names I would
> > expect freebsd-base be a superset of all the freebsd-base-*.
>
> Well, the ports tree already has "freebsd-games", "freebsd-uucp",
> and "freebsd-update"; it might be confusing if the -base- were omitted.
> Better to err on the side of verbosity.
ok, but then freebsd-base should become freebsd-base-base.
(yes, my obsession is symmetry :)
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