On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote: >> It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base. > > Sounds easy, but not so much in practice. Keeping any of the code > doesn't solve the problem of the release cycles not syncing up. And for > the vast majority of users needs the tools we will import will be more > than adequate.
The question I keep asking myself is: "Is this best for the users?" I can't convince myself that it is, at the moment. While I completely agree with you reasons, and I do think that in an ideal way they'd be good, I'm just not sure they are the best thing to do for users. Linux has `nscd` which is a nice caching resolver, but most distributions still carry bind-tools in the default install. Enough people expect the tools to be there, that getting rid of them for almost any reason seems like a bad idea for low benefit. I could care less about the resolver daemon itself, I agree with what you're saying and I don't think most end users will care about that. But getting rid of dig and host in base would be bad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
