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Date:      Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:55:07 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Results of BIND RFC 
Message-ID:  <11351.1270198507@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:33:53 MST." <20100402013353.f544e8ad.stas@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <20100402013353.f544e8ad.stas@FreeBSD.org>, Stanislav Sedov writes:
>On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:26:13 +0900
>Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> mentioned:

>Ports doesn't support cross-compilation yet,
>and it would be a pity to find yourself
>bootstrapping another tiny arm platform and
>having to use ports to have a usable system.

The result of the RFC was that bind is not a mandatory component
to make "a usable system", so you argument suffers from bad logic.

The fact that you want BIND on your arm, is no different from
somebody else wanting postfix on a MIPS.

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