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From: Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:54:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837a75d1-1112-417a-8bc6-dd59e64a044a@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <671cb905.5d0a0220.245097.d74f@mx.google.com>

Hi Rainer,

> 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".

That is correct. The package now even says as much (since about 12
hours ago!):

 > net-dns/bind-tools is now merged into net-dns/bind and
 > net-dns/bind-tools serves as a dummy package until it is
 > eventually removed. The split was already a maintenance burden
 > because of lack of build system support for it, but this became
 > more severe with >=9.18.0.
 >
 > Please run the following commands:
 > * emerge --deselect net-dns/bind-tools
 > * emerge --noreplace net-dns/bind

Regards,

Matt


      reply	other threads:[~2024-10-26  9:54 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   ` [gentoo-user] " Dr Rainer Woitok
2024-10-26  9:54     ` Matt Jolly [this message]

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