On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 08:38:53PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> Thanks for the comments,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 01:52:11PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>      On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 06:36:04PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>      > * gnu/packages/networking.scm (bind): New variable.
>      
>      Hi, thanks for this patch! I think it can go in the DNS module.
>      
>      I wonder, how does it relate to the BIND that replaces the bundled BIND
>      in isc-dhcp, which I've noticed often requires security updates?
> 
> I don't think it relates at all, except that it is produced by the same group.
> 
> However, I noticed in that module, there is bind-utils, which provides about
> half of what my patch does, and IMO is unecessarily complicated.  I suppose this
> was done because somebody wanted to provide the DNS query tools without the
> DNS server.  
> 
> I think this would be better achieved by having separate outputs bind:utils and bind:daemon

Okay, so what is the status of this package? Do you want to add it
as-is, or do you want to overhaul bind-utils?