On Sun, June 6, 2010 1:49 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Let me make this clear. We need to have basic dns utilities in the > system base that are NOT dependent on the bind or any other dns serving > package being installed. > > The whole point is to give users the ability to pkg_remove bind and > pkg_add > something else and not have it break core system utilities.
If there was a "bind_utilities" package, or something like that, that installed the needed tools but not BIND, would that be OK? I'd really like to shift maintenance work on third-party software out to where it's already done (pkgsrc). I'd also like to have cake, and eat it too.
