Re: Why Does bind Have So Many Dependencies

From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local_at_be-well.ilk.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:46:21 UTC
Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> writes:

> I got notice the bind 9.16 was going EOL and to upgrade to 9.18.
>
> When I built from source, I saw this very long list of other stuff
> that got build.  X libs?  doxygen?   Why  all this:

Offhand, I can say that's not a particularly heavy set of dependencies. A
lot of them look like they probably come from something along the line using
a lot of rendering tools to build its documentation.

Why do you ask? After all, you're clearly pretty competent at dealing with
the ports system.

Be well.