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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:59:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZxtsCxTwb1jccy2_@stitch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vfepqu$h1f$1@ciao.gmane.io>

On 2024-10-25 00:47:27, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Try net-dns/doggo[2]
> 
> Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like
> bind-tools does.  [OK, two are just account/group packages, so it's
> not quite as bad as it sounds.]

It's a Go package though, so it will quietly install a mountain a
random outdated static libraries from github.

Try it:

  $ emerge --fetchonly --nodeps doggo
  $ tar -tf /var/cache/distfiles/doggo-1.0.5-deps.tar.xz

BIND may actually be the least bad option. The Knot DNS server
provides alternatives like kdig, but you'll still wind up with a
full-fledged DNS server on your hands.

Depending on how serious this is, you could use package.provided and
INSTALL_MASK to block everything you don't want.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-25  9:59 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 [this message]
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

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