[systemd-devel] [PATCH] build: change tcpwrappers support to disabled by default

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 20.03.14 12:49, Cristian Rodríguez (crrodriguez at opensuse.org) wrote:
>
>> The underlying components have not seen any upstream activity
>> since 1997 and are not particulary nice either.
>>
>> Those interested in computer archeology can explicitly use --enable-tcpwrap
>
> Is suse intending to drop tcpwrap from its core os?
>
> I am all for getting rid of tcpwrap, but just disabling it in
> configure.ac by default looks like the wrong option to me...
>
> So far our policy was to enable evertyhing that exists in systemd by
> default when you build it with the default options, so that everything
> gets at least regularly compile tested, if not actually tested in
> real-life.
>
> So, if this shall stay in systemd, then it should be enabled by
> default. The only other option I see is to remove it entirely, but i'd
> really like to keep the bigger picture in view there. Or in other words,
> if we get rid of it in systemd, we should do so knowing that this is in
> sync with what the big distros intend to do in general too.
>
> TO figure out what we can do in Fedora I have now started a discussion
> on fedora-devel, about getting rid of tcpwrap system-wide. Let's see
> where this goes. Would be interested in feedback about this from other
> distros too.

We dropped tcpwrap from Arch  a few years back [0]. I can not remember
any fallout at all, maybe Dave's memory is better?

Cheers,

Tom

[0]: <https://www.archlinux.org/news/dropping-tcp_wrappers-support/>