On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:11:36 -0800
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandroselli@???):
>
> > This is something that belongs to a different stage in the OS
> > installation, when:
> >
> > 1) the user determined that a DNS server must be installed;
> > 2) that it has to run as a local recursive nameserver;
> > 3) that a particular implementation of such a server must be
> > installed.
>
> This view amounts to 'consign it to an expert installation profile',
> which then is functionally the same as 'don't bother', as discussed
> below.
>
> I should stress that I didn't _literally_ have in mind the installer
> offering the user all five open source recursive nameservers for
> Linux. I showed all five checkboxes to stress the breadth of options
> _all_ of which are being ignored -- even in your amazing and rather
> amusing list.

I really like djbdns, but its installation is long and error prone, and
djb uses directories like /service that no distro will ever use. Every
distro I ever saw providing djbdns (superset of dnscache) did it in a
way that required gargantuan troubleshooting. If Devuan did it, it
would need to be done in a reasonable way with good documentation.

On a selfish note, because every computer I use either has runit or has
already installed Daemontools or Daemontools-encore, it would be nice
if the daemontools part of djbdns install was made optional.

SteveT

Steve Litt
December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21