From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9544 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Mar 2003 15:37:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2714 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2003 15:37:57 -0000 Message-ID: <000901c2ebd2$01fecad0$0101a8c0@cascade> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Stroller" , Cc: References: <1047685726.b6bb4300gentoogimp@myrealbox.com> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:37:52 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ISC-Bind inconsistancy X-Archives-Salt: 386f0ba3-4434-4619-aa34-80bf51ff1e35 X-Archives-Hash: 7c321a29aa2f8f4d59726f65d6a2cfa1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stroller" To: Cc: Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ISC-Bind inconsistancy >Whilst I can't comment on your other points, I supect that the short answer to this last is >because "that's the way that Berkeley (?) package them'. Uhm -- no they didn't. They are in the same source tarball. >I can see good reason for having 2 separate packages: Joe User buys his DNS hosting >service from ISP.net, as he lives out in the country & can't run a 24/7 Bind server (his >servers are at another.isp.net & bigISP.com). He wants to query his DNS config >periodically, however, to check it, and so he can make requests to >customer.admin@ISP.net; consequently Joe User needs Bind-tools, but not Bind itself. I can not. The size of the additional named binary is small. Very small. The cost of building the entire package twice is much bigger. I can see having a separate package that installs only the tools, but I can not see having the bind package not install the tools in the first place. Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list