Hi Grant,
On 25/10/24 04:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
Portage suddenly wants to install net-dns/bind so it can update
bind-tools from 9.16 to 9.18. I've always had bind-tools installed,
but it has never required that I install the bind server and its
dependencies (for which I have no use). Older versions of bind-tools
didn't require bind. The ebuilds for bind-tools 9.20 that I've found
at on overlays don't require bind.
What's so special about bind-tools 9.18 that it has to have bind
installed?
The commit that added 9.18.0[1] gives some context:
>This is just a proxy for net-dns/bind. Splitting the ebuilds is *way* too
>fragile and gains nothing because the same software gets built again
anyway,
>just thrown away at the end.
Is there another package that will provide a command line dns lookup
tool that can be used for troubleshooting that doesn't require me to
install a DNS server all of its extra faff?
Try net-dns/doggo[2]
1:
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/754524d4345dd41ff9e31cba85afb4f104a9815a
2: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-dns/doggo
