On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:06:13PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
  | You know, it is obvious that having a built in named gets in the way
  | of the people who want to use an alternative, like djbdns
  | say. Also, when we ship our own named, what if someone wants different
  | permissions on their named binary? Every time you build NetBSD you
  | just end up getting the permissions you prefer blown away. It is
  | obviously wrong that we are shipping with a named at all, especially
  | given that it isn't clear if people want bind 8, or bind 9, or djbdns,
  | or whatever. Also, most clients don't need a name server, just a
  | resolver.
  | 
  | By the way, I never use vi. I hate having to deal with the bloat of
  | it. Awaiting permission to remove the vi sources....

As you know, syspkgs should solve the problem of ``I don't want
subsystem foo, please make it easier for me to not install it''.

Last I heard, you were working on syspkgs.  How's it going?