From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8517 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Mar 2003 23:48:46 -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 4424 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 23:48:46 -0000 From: "Stroller" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org CC: stroller@bigfoot.com Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:48:46 +0000 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: gentoogimp MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1047685726.b6bb4300gentoogimp@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ISC-Bind inconsistancy X-Archives-Salt: 2fb0eed7-37e2-402d-90a5-563af8085540 X-Archives-Hash: c5fd4420bf8f89d82e694e4ae6730bae "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote > > ... bind-tools ... bind itself > I am a little unclear why there are two separate packages in > the first place. 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'. 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 ne= eds Bind-tools, but not Bind itself. HTH, Stroller. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list