On Thursday, 17 October 2024 at 21:16 (-0500), David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/17/24 6:44 AM, Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote:
It's worth noting that nftables is not a newfangled piece of external
software – it's been mainlined in the Linux kernel since 2013, and was
intended to be the successor to legacy iptables.
If nftables automatically uninstalls iptables as an indirect
dependency, then no, the default should not change. That would seem to
break every Arch system currently using iptables.
It doesn't.
# pacman -Si nftables
Name : nftables
[...]
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
[...]
Jaron