On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:43am, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Hello, > > the 'bind' package has a dependency on 'perl'. bind 8 & 9 had one perl script (named-bootconf), but bind 9.2 changed that (upstream) to a shell script (/usr/sbin/named-bootconf) in order to eliminate this dependency. Did the bind package maintainer(s) ever remove the dependency from the SPEC file for 9.2? Though, as you note here, there's been another perl script added recently: > This huge dependency is > introduced by a single '/usr/sbin/namedGetForwarders' script which is > not needed for most setups. Because none of bind's base-dependencies > requires 'perl' and 'namedGetForwarders' is not part of bind's core > functionality this dependency must vanish. > > Possible solutions: > > * move this stuff into an own subpackage (e.g. -dbus-tools) > * rewrite namedGetForwarders in a programming language or in shell IMHO, the second one is better. It looks like it would be very easy to rewrite in C. I'm not sure about a shell script, but that might be the best choice given the architecture of bind. > [Bug #176100] -- Lamont Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] NOTE: All messages from this email address should be digitally signed with my 0xDC0DD409 GPG key. It is available on the pgp.mit.edu keyserver as well as other keyservers that sync with MIT's.
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