On 20/03/13 19:07, Ionut Biru wrote:
On 03/20/2013 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 20.03.2013 04:50, schrieb Gaetan Bisson:
Consequently, official packages using [dnsutils](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dnsutils/) were migrated to [ldns](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/ldns/), a much nicer library which provides a `drill` command that replaces `dig`, `nslookup`, and `host`.
Wait, I think I misunderstood your original email. I was under the impression that ldns provides drop-in replacements for the commands.
This is not the case and thus I will have no 'host' command anymore. Not that I particularly rely on dnsutils, but I imagine *everyone* expects the 'host' command to exist.
host and dig are tools that I use every day and they are the standard.
Can't we symlink drill -> dig etc?
i don't see why they should be dropped just because bind (as in the server) doesn't suite you well now.
At the minimum, the new deps mean dnsutils needs dropped from [core].
why cannot we keep the tools?
Are volunteering to maintain it? As the original email said: On 09/03/13 12:27, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
- We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community].
Allan