how to remove bind?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I intend to use 9.8 from source, I removed anything that had
> >> > bind/host/in it
> >> > that was related (I am 30 yr veteran of unix so not a newbie, but i am
> >> > not
> >> > impressed with how ubuntu breaks things up into million tiny packages
> >> > all dependant upon critical things.
> >>
> >> You are probably better off using, or rebuilding, 9.8 packages in order
> to
> >> meet
> >> all the other package dependencies.  Mr Hauke Lampe has built them...
> >> https://launchpad.net/~hauke/+archive/bind9<https://launchpad.net/%7Ehauke/+archive/bind9>
> >>
> >> If you don't trust this third party repository, you can grab his
> >> source packages,
> >> inspect them, and rebuild them.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The thing is I want to avoid lock-in with what I use, if I want
> dictatorship
> > in packages, I'd use the kids windows pc in the lounge
>
> If you want to avoid lock in, someone with 30 years experience should know
> about Linux from Scratch and the reason why bind is packaged this way.
> For example most users do not need to run a caching or authoritative DNS
> server, they only need to resolve DNS.
>
> I'm glad I get to wait 10 years.  Gentoo was bad enough -- I have no
interest in LfS.
I've written a few small OS-en myself and learned a lot doing it, but I got
paid for that :o)

>
>
> 15 years experience with Unix,
> Chuck
>
> --
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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