[DEP-BLOAT] 'bind' requires 'perl'

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Enrico Scholz wrote:

>Hello,
>
>the 'bind' package has a dependency on 'perl'. This huge dependency is
>introduced by a single '/usr/sbin/namedGetForwarders' script which is
>not needed for most setups. Because none of bind's base-dependencies
>requires 'perl' and 'namedGetForwarders' is not part of bind's core
>functionality this dependency must vanish.
>
>Possible solutions:
>
>* move this stuff into an own subpackage (e.g. -dbus-tools)
>* rewrite namedGetForwarders in a programming language or in shell
>  
>
or in awk ...


Dmitry Butskoy