On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Steven Tardy sjt5atra@gmail.com wrote:
Political reasons shouldn't prevent removing tcp wrappers, but some technical reasons still exist.
Interesting double negative. Implies that once the "technical barriers" are removed, then it's OK to remove old features for change's sake. ;)
Aren't political reasons the reason they are thinking of removing ' em?. Certainly I see no technical problem with tcp wrappers.
The Unix tradition was to build upon existing tools. As of late, the Linux approach seems to be "hey this is old, I could add a few medals to my professional resume and escalate a few positions up the corporate ladder if I reinvent the wheel and redo this old working code in a totally different way that breaks backwards compatibility and some third party code, so let's do it, let's 'move things forward'. Those that oppose it are slowing the progress of the distro".
Well DUH :-/ Pardon me if I don't cheer such moves.
FC