From nobody Sun Mar 17 19:52:03 2024 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TyTCh3VChz5DlpY for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TyTCg4DHrz4SY9; Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:52:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=ilk.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org designates 23.30.133.173 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Received: from lowell-Ubuntu.lan (lowell-Ubuntu.lan [172.30.250.95]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AFA47B56; Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:52:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-Ubuntu.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 1C8CC10803C6; Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:52:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Does bind Have So Many Dependencies In-Reply-To: (Greg Lehey's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:45:27 +1100") References: <44bk7ff70i.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <18e4819d3e0.2890.0b331fcf0b21179f1640bd439e3f4a1e@tundraware.com> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:52:03 -0400 Message-ID: <44a5mwiql8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.66 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.96)[-0.961]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[ilk.org,none]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7922, ipnet:23.30.0.0/15, country:US]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4TyTCg4DHrz4SY9 Taking a completely side t[r]?ack... Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > "For every difficult problem there is an answer that is simple, > elegant, and wrong". For the record, because this is one of my favorite quotes, I would like to offer a traceable attribution of the phrase. It comes from H.L. Mencken, who first wrote it in the New York Evening Mail in 1917. He went on to put it in other essays over another third of a century. His actual wording at that time was: "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem =97 neat, plausible, and wrong." I haven't been able to dig up an original source for the version that Greg Lehey quotes, but I'd love to hear about it if you know it: that version is much more on-the-nose here in 2024. Be well. Lowell