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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:47:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-24, Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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.

I'm just not keen on have extra, uneeded accounts, groups, binaries,
and libraries, but I'm probably being overly paranoid.

>> Is there another package that will provide a command line dns lookup
>> tool that can be used for troubleshooting that doesn't require me to
>> install a DNS server all of its extra faff?
>
> 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.]

Thanks.