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

[Dave Reisner]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:29:07PM +0100, Lennart Poettering 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.

Arch removed tcpwrap from our repositories almost 3 years ago:

https://www.archlinux.org/news/dropping-tcp_wrappers-support/

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