On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 18:25, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm stumbling across a load of dns server software that conflict in > imho spurious ways with each other. To resolve the situation, I suggest > having one or two new virtual package names > > dns-server > > or maybe > > dns-server-resolver and dns-server-authoritative > > that should make conflict resolution more predictable, and also allow > the user greater flexibility in the configuration of their name server > software. Example cases: > > - 'ldapdns' conflicts with 'bind' but not 'bind9'. > - 'ldap2dns' depends on 'bind' and 'djbdns' (the latter non-existing in > Debian), and thus, by transitivity, conflicts with 'bind9'. > - Then there are maradns and mydns that don't conflict with any other > DNS server. > - Then there are pdsnd and pnrd which conflict with each other, but no > other software like eg. 'bind'. > - There's djbdns-installer which neither conflicts with nor provides > anything. > > Maybe I've overlooked something, but sorting the various dns software > components into authoritative and resolving packages (and maybe ignoring > the point that one could imagine having eg. a BIND resolver and a mydns > authoritative server) appears to be desirable to me. > > Opinions are welcome! > Definately a good idea. There are also other dns-servers out there (not part of Debian because of licensing, but packaged for Debian), which also conflict with bind and a virtual package name could solve that pretty well. -- Regards, Martin List-Petersen martin at list-petersen dot dk -- "I don't know what their gripe is. A critic is simply someone paid to render opinions glibly." "Critics are grinks and groinks." -- Baron and Badger, from Badger comics
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