On Thursday 28 June 2012 14:05:45 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: > > I was looking at TCP Wrapper and there is really no use for it on modern > > Linux kernels. It's real purpose were monitoring and filtering network > > access to some services iirc. But today Netfilter and Iptables do that > > and lot more, so I suggest we remove it and don't even mention it. It's > > way too old, unmaintained and imho unnecesary today. > > I agree that it's unnecessary and I generally do not install it, but I > also think that many people expect it. Here is a list of packages that > reference it: > > gdm > esound > nfs-utils > rpcbind > stunnel > openssh > sane > lprng > cups > openldap > exim > sendmail > mysql > vsftpd > > It is a very old program. The date I see is 1997. On the other hand, I > don't think it is any effort to just leave it in the book. > > What do others think?
To reduce the complexity of the book, I think the more old obsolete packages we remove the better. If no packages require TCP-wrappers, I suggest we remove it. -Ragnar- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
