Matt and others, On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:35:00 +1000 Matt Jolly wrote: > ... > On 25/10/24 04:45, Grant Edwards wrote: > > ... > > What's so special about bind-tools 9.18 that it has to have bind > > installed? > > 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.
Doesn't that mean that best practice would be to just ditch "net-dns/ bind-tools" and solely install "net-dns/bind" instead? At least up to now the latter _also_ provides "nslookup" and "dig". Sincerely, Rainer
