Re: HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, June 6, 2010 1:49 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    Let me make this clear.  We need to have basic dns utilities in the
>    system base that are NOT dependent on the bind or any other dns serving
>    package being installed.
>
>    The whole point is to give users the ability to pkg_remove bind and
> pkg_add
>    something else and not have it break core system utilities.

If there was a "bind_utilities" package, or something like that, that
installed the needed tools but not BIND, would that be OK?  I'd really
like to shift maintenance work on third-party software out to where it's
already done (pkgsrc).  I'd also like to have cake, and eat it too.