[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

Thomas S Hatch thatch45 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 17:08:18 EDT 2011


On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Am 16.07.2011 23:00, schrieb Richard Ullger:
> > What do the devs intend to do with packages that depend on tcp_wrapper
> > such as syslog-ng, xinetd and esound which is a dependency of gstreamer?
> >
> > Richard.
>
> None of those depends on tcp_wrappers.
>
> For those packages that have tcp_wrappers listed as deps, they can all be
built without tcp_wrapper support. the tcp_wrapper package provides NO
additional functionality required by any application. It can be removed
cleanly.


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