Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

[Avleen Vig]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> But I think you are wrong about this one aspect of your
>> proposed change.  To discover that "dig" is suddenly not in the base
>> FreeBSD system any more some day would be just about the worst
>> violation of the Principle of Least Astonishment for me in many
>> years.
>
> All flippancy aside, I understand what you're saying here. The problem
> is that we can't keep BIND in the base. Given that, we need to look at
> how best to handle the transition.

This is essentially what I was trying to get at :-)
The proposed solution of `dig` and `host` returning "These tools can
be installed through the bind-utils port, or you can use `drill`" I
think would be sufficient.
Having them simply disappear would be terrible, but stubs would make
this possibly the least painful thing.