On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:59:48AM -1000, Randy Bush 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. > > not exactly. some number of us, and i do not know what proportion, > merely want to run a version of bind different than that installed > by the default make world. currently, when we install a new system, > we have to manually take out the default dig, host, ... > > in general, i suspect that second-guessing users' perception of > package boundaries, as opposed to sticking with the formal chunks, > will increase entropy. > There are plans to add support for "make uninsall" to bsd.*.mk files, FWIW. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov FreeBSD committer ru_at_FreeBSD.org
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