On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:00:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > - dnsutils: > > bind9-host provides a (limited) DNS query interface. No need to > > install both bind9-host and dnsutils by default. > > -> demote to "optional" > > I'd actually argue for demoting bind9-host and keeping dnsutils, but I > certainly agree that one suffices.
Why? nslookup has been deprecated for years in favour of host, and dig is overkill for most users. Not having host (which I believe is the official command for looking up dns info) makes no sense. I hadn't even heard of nsupdate before looking what was in dnsutils. > I've been working on making the MTA optional for several releases, > slowly getting dependencies dropped or made optional (or packages > depending on an MTA moved out of standard). At the moment, the last > holdout is that cron has no output logging without it. I supplied a > patch fixing that, but these days I think the much simpler fix involves > just feeding the output to either logger or the journal. Well if cron was to go away by default, then problem solved. :) -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150506145315.gt24...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
