how to remove bind?

[Chuck Peters]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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
>>
>> If you don't trust this third party repository, you can grab his
>> source packages,
>> inspect them, and rebuild them.
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> 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.



15 years experience with Unix,
Chuck