Subject: Re: bug#56432: run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:56:55 +0200

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Do we really need both the `dig' and the `run-dig' commands?
>
> Should one of them be obsoleted?  If we want to be able to specify both
> query-type and server, we could consider using double and triple
> prefixes for that.  Or even write a transient.

Looks like `run-dig' should be obsoleted (since it's just a wrapper
around the "dig" program) and has worse output.

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