Re: Time to stop buildling named (and friends) by default in 6-current?

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 03/17/05

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To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>

    John Baldwin wrote:
    > On Wednesday 16 March 2005 05:27 am, Doug Barton wrote:
    >
    >>Folks,
    >>
    >>Way back at the bsdcon in Foster City when we first started talking about
    >>importing BIND 9 into the base we also talked about adding more knobs to
    >>give users finer grained control over which bits of BIND were built, and
    >>turning off the build of named (and associated binaries) by default. Well,
    >>the first bit is done, so we're now in the position of being able to flip
    >>the NO_BIND_NAMED knob (see make.conf(5) for details) to WITH_BIND_NAMED,
    >>and turn it off by default. Is this something that we're still interested
    >>in doing? If so, this would be a good time to do it, since I'll be
    >>importing 9.3.1 sometime in the next couple days (first round of make world
    >>testing is underway), and we're still early in the life of 6-current.
    >>
    >>Of course, this would only be for 6-current, we wouldn't change the
    >>behavior in RELENG_[45].
    >>
    >>What do you think?
    >
    >
    > If we are going to do this, then why not just have users install bind from
    > ports and only install the client as part of the base system? This is what
    > we do with DHCP for example. Basically, if it's going to be an optional
    > component, I think it belongs in ports, not the /usr/src.
    >

    I agree here, though maybe the argument is moot now that Doug imported
    9.3.1 last night? Not changing the status quo is ok too.

    Scott
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