On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Robert Elz wrote: > | | Please describe how nsd has a "tighter integration" or (i assume > | | better?) "out of the box usability" when in -base vs pkgsrc. > > Aside from what Christos said, anything in base can be installed from > a (downloaded and burned) CD/DVD and work without any kind of network > connection. > > In this context, that's particularly relevant if you're setting up a > DNS zone signing system - one of those wants to be 100% isolated from > the Internet (from day 1) (unless you have one of the fancy, costly, > hadware, signing boxes) so that the safety of the key used is ensured > (particularly relevant if you're running one of the upper level domains.) > > Of course, it is possible to get everything needed, and burn it on extra > CDs (or USB sticks) and install it that way - but that's not nearly as > tightly integrated (nor nearly as well tested.)
Just as note here: there is a way to build/install some external software in with a release by adding a reachover build into extsrc/ and setting MKEXTSRC=yes - I assume that this functionality was added because somebody uses it to create a funtional system for their own purpose. It would be nice if one could have some packages pre-installed in the release but I don't think anybody ever worked on that. iain