Ken Moffat wrote these words on 12/15/12 20:39 CST: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:16:12PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> No big deal, I was just trying to find out the reasoning. >> > Please see the BLFS-dev archives from June 2012 under the title > 'TCP Wrapper'. I agree with your comments, but I've managed to get > iptables configured to replace it and so I'm happy to live without > it. Put the emphasis on 'IPTables [is] more robust'.
But why can't we give users the choice? Wrappers still builds without errors and works as it was intended. There is no maintenance involved from a BLFS editor perspective. For these reasons I wonder why it was removed and marked as deprecated. Other distros still ship it, right? Again, I'm not arguing, just trying to discover the reasoning for removing a package that builds fine, is functional, and was written by one of the fathers of Unix and free software. The package (unlike most) has stood the test of time. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 20:43:00 up 10 days, 6:42, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.01 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
