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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?
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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