Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 01:30:57 +0000
> From: Josh Moyer <[email protected]>
> 
> ISC's dhcp suite is sadly now out of support (and had apparently
> long been deprecated) from ISC*, but we're still shipping it.  Has
> there been discussion about what to do about this?  ISC's
> replacement Kia project at least has a tool to convert your
> dhcpd.conf to something usable in Kia - important for those of us
> with more complex dhcpd configurations.

I think we should just drop isc-dhcpd from the base system and let
users install a DHCP server package if they want.

A DHCP _server_ (or relay) isn't necessary for the kind of system
integration that justifies the maintenance burden of having it in the
base system -- unlike say, a DHCP _client_, which is needed to get
connected to the network and download packages in the first place.

> However, this doesn't solve the client side portion.

What do you mean by the client side portion?  Are you talking about
dhclient, which NetBSD stopped shipping in 9.x?  (We switched to
dhcpcd ages ago.)