On 2024-10-24, Matt Jolly <kan...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The commit that added 9.18.0[1] gives some context: > > >This is just a proxy for net-dns/bind. Splitting the ebuilds is > >*way* too fragile and gains nothing because the same software gets > >built again anyway, just thrown away at the end.
I'm just not keen on have extra, uneeded accounts, groups, binaries, and libraries, but I'm probably being overly paranoid. >> Is there another package that will provide a command line dns lookup >> tool that can be used for troubleshooting that doesn't require me to >> install a DNS server all of its extra faff? > > Try net-dns/doggo[2] Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like bind-tools does. [OK, two are just account/group packages, so it's not quite as bad as it sounds.] Thanks.
