Nuking parts of the world

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/attachments/20040317/563213d2/attachment.bin