Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:00:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > - dnsutils:
> > bind9-host provides a (limited) DNS query interface. No need to
> > install both bind9-host and dnsutils by default.
> > -> demote to "optional"
>
> I'd actually argue for demoting bind9-host and keeping dnsutils, but I
> certainly agree that one suffices.
Why? nslookup has been deprecated for years in favour of host, and dig
is overkill for most users. Not having host (which I believe is the
official command for looking up dns info) makes no sense. I hadn't even
heard of nsupdate before looking what was in dnsutils.
> I've been working on making the MTA optional for several releases,
> slowly getting dependencies dropped or made optional (or packages
> depending on an MTA moved out of standard). At the moment, the last
> holdout is that cron has no output logging without it. I supplied a
> patch fixing that, but these days I think the much simpler fix involves
> just feeding the output to either logger or the journal.
Well if cron was to go away by default, then problem solved. :)
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Len Sorensen
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