> > > I would say the same, but a todo list isn't a to-done list, so keep > that in mind. He also pointed out that I got little to no feedback > when I asked about this both a year and six months ago, so > expectations are pretty low this time around. I'm sure if there were > serious objections people would raise them and we could address them. > > This is worthy of a news article once we move packages to core only > because it could expose some services people didn't previously expect > to need to protect. > > -Dan > As far as feedback goes, I have used tcp-wrappers a great deal in the past, but not for many years. And the fact that it needs to be so heavily patched suggests that we should not be using it anyway. I agree that we should not have to maintain it anymore, it is an outdated security system that usually gets in the way, and Arch is the only distro I use that turns it on by default. +1
