On 18-10-2024 08:35, Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote:
On Thursday, 17 October 2024 at 21:16 (-0500), David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/17/24 6:44 AM, Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote:

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

It's iptables-nft that would likely become the new default, existing iptables installs should not be affected.


> $ pacman -Qi iptables-nft  

> >Name            : iptables-nft

> Provides        : libip4tc.so=2-64  libip6tc.so=2-64  libipq.so=0-64  libxtables.so=12-64  iptables  arptables  ebtables
> Conflicts With  : iptables  arptables  ebtables

> Replaces        : None


LW