Re: Why Does bind Have So Many Dependencies

On March 15, 2024 6:23:11 PM Lowell Gilbert 
<freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> 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.

Because I try to not clutter up servers with unnecessary ports.  It takes 
up space and increases the attack surface.

What I don't understand is that I told the build not to include docs but it 
installed all this other cruft anyway.

 A dns server build shouldn't require groff and xaw...