[Bug 618935] [NEW] geoip dependency is large; load dynamically?

[Colin Watson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bind9

libdns66 is in ubuntu-standard, via bind9-host and dnsutils, and is
therefore on every Ubuntu system except for those created using a bare
debootstrap.  It depends on libgeoip1 which in turn recommends geoip-
database.  Since we install recommends by default, this comes to nearly
3MB of additional .deb size in the installed system.

I can see the use of GeoIP ACLs on a nameserver, but I'm having trouble
working out why we need this on most client systems.  If you agree that
it is chiefly useful on nameservers, would it be at all possible to load
the GeoIP library using dlopen rather than normal run-time linking, drop
libgeoip1 to a Suggests, and perhaps have bind9 depend on it or
something?

** Affects: bind9 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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geoip dependency is large; load dynamically?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618935
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