On 9 Jul 2012, at 08:34, Avleen Vig wrote: > > Agreed. The idea of a "minimally functional system" itself might be > flawed. Do you consider having `dig` and `host` essential in a > minimally functioning system? I do. > It's pretty f'king hard to resolve problems with installing the > bind-utils port, if you don't know how to test your DNS :-) > > The issue is also one of barrier-to-entry. By removing `dig` and > `host`, I think we're making things unnecessarily more difficult for > people who don't *know* FreeBSD. `dig` and `host` a universally > standard tools for doing DNS lookups. Taking them away in base to > replace them with something else just seems like something that won't > really *help* users.
Indeed, 'dig' and 'host' must be present and working as expected in a minimally installed system. - Mark _______________________________________________ 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"
