Looks like without any notice , we have dropped net-dns/bind-tools, its not basically an empty shim for net-dns/bind. https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/754524d4345dd41ff9e31cba85afb4f104a9815a For us few tin foil hats that do not wish to have a full DNS server on systems, but would like to have dig,nslookup,etc. A nice fig leaf would be to add a server flag to net-dns/bind to remove the server side functionality. Seems there is little appetite to maintain this, but it would be a very nice functionality to have Please consider this as an alternative for bind-tools.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -v bind-tools Actual Results: installs bind server tools Expected Results: install bind client tools
> Looks like without any notice , we have dropped net-dns/bind-tools, its not basically an empty shim for net-dns/bind. Please see the extensive discussion in bug 832218 and at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1170658.html.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=49f33ad56886ad76c89e079ba9931732adf6f989 commit 49f33ad56886ad76c89e079ba9931732adf6f989 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-10-25 21:31:01 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-10-25 21:31:19 +0000 net-dns/bind-tools: add ewarn explaining the package is obsolete Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/942104 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.18.0.ebuild | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
As for the request itself, no, it's not going to happen, per the extensive discussion.
