On 20/03/13 19:07, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 03/20/2013 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 20.03.2013 04:50, schrieb Gaetan Bisson: >>> Consequently, official packages using >>> [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) >>> were migrated to >>> [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), >>> a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command >>> that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`. >> >> Wait, I think I misunderstood your original email. I was under the >> impression that ldns provides drop-in replacements for the commands. >> >> This is not the case and thus I will have no 'host' command anymore. Not >> that I particularly rely on dnsutils, but I imagine *everyone* expects >> the 'host' command to exist. >> >> > > host and dig are tools that I use every day and they are the standard.
Can't we symlink drill -> dig etc? > i don't see why they should be dropped just because bind (as in the > server) doesn't suite you well now. At the minimum, the new deps mean dnsutils needs dropped from [core]. > why cannot we keep the tools? Are volunteering to maintain it? As the original email said: On 09/03/13 12:27, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > - We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds > them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community]. Allan
