From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:40:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <671cb905.5d0a0220.245097.d74f@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2acf0931-8d75-4e2d-99f2-75a8f8fcd94e@gentoo.org> (message from Matt Jolly on Fri, 25 Oct 2024 08:35:00 +1000)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-26 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-24 18:45 [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind? Grant Edwards
2024-10-24 22:35 ` Matt Jolly
2024-10-25 0:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2024-10-25 9:59 ` Michael Orlitzky
2024-10-25 11:08 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2024-10-25 15:59 ` Michael Orlitzky
2024-10-25 16:39 ` Grant Edwards
2024-10-25 13:53 ` Grant Edwards
2024-10-26 8:10 ` Eray Aslan
2024-10-26 10:42 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-10-27 8:59 ` Eray Aslan
2024-10-26 9:40 ` Dr Rainer Woitok [this message]
2024-10-26 9:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Matt Jolly
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