Subject: Re: Removal of net/bind9/builtin.mk
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/18/2007 13:22:00
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:02PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > It's good enough to stop the "milter-greylist" package from building
> > the "bind9" package just to get a thread-safe resolver library.
> 
> Thread-safe or reentrant?

Thread-safe

> You actually gave me a very good reason to really remove it. Just
> depending on any BIND to get the resolver lib is blantantly
> abuse. It should be something similiar to mk/pthread.b3.mk.

I'm not objecting to a better solution. But just removing it will
result in e.g. "milter-greylist" to build the "bind9" package
for no good reason. And that's hardly an improvment from the
users point of view.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/