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run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?

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Message #22 received at 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56432: run-dig vs dig -- do we need both?
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:37:09 +0300

> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 56432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 11:36:06 +0200
> 
> close 56432 29.1
> thanks
> 
> Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >     Lars> Looks like `run-dig' should be obsoleted (since it's just a wrapper
> >     Lars> around the "dig" program) and has worse output.
> 
> Thanks, now done (commit 707124d2b9).

Such a hurry...

run-dig seems to be able to guess the host using
net-utils-machine-at-point, something 'dig' doesn't.  So if we want to
tell people top use the latter, IMO we should teach 'dig' that trick.

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