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
prev parent 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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