BIND chroot environment in 10-RELEASE...gone?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > It was a deliberate decision made by the maintainer. He said the chroot 
> > code in the installation was too complicated and would be removed as a 
> > part of the installation clean-up to get all BIND related files out of 
> > /usr and /etc. I protested at the time as did someone else, but the 
> > maintainer did not respond. I thnk this was a really, really bad 
> > decision.
> >
> > I searched a bit for the thread on removing BIND leftovers, but have 
> > failed to find it.
> >
> 
> You're probably thinking about my November 17 posting: 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-November/075895.html
> 
> I'm glad to see others finally speaking up; I was beginning to think I was 
> the only one who thought this was not a good idea.  I'm a bit surprised 
> that no one has responded yet.

I agree with the protesters here. Removing chroot and symlinking logic
in the ports is a significant disservice to FreeBSD users, and will 
make it harder to use BIND in a sensible way. A net disincentive to
use FreeBSD :-(

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no