Bind within src-contrib

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Oct 12 23:13:30 PDT 2005


Joshua Bell <josh at oplink.net> writes:
> I was attempting to build a minimal supfile, when I noticed that
> bind was included within contrib.  This to me seems like something
> that should be included within the ports tree, or atleast be
> included in a portion of the tree with less crucial software.

BIND has been a part of BSD since its inception (the B in BIND and BSD
both stand for Berkeley), and parts of it are essential to the system.

DES
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