On 2014-03-23, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote: > > I do not influence Red Hat's decisions. Perhaps it would help if a > volunteer maintainer emerged as the new TCP Wrappers champion ? It certainly would, and therein lies the problem: nobody has actually volunteered for this position. From the original question posed, it seems like they would be more inclined to keep it if there were a maintainer. Because ultimately that's really the issue: it's not "it doesn't work now" but "what happens if something breaks in the future?" And please don't say "what could break?" because that would almost certainly jinx us, and we'd find a zero-day exploit within hours. ;-) I would like to observe that the original post did not state "we are removing tcp wrappers from RHEL". It said "we are discussing removing it from Fedora". And finally, if it did come to pass that tcp wrappers were removed from RHEL, a SIG or other group could emerge which could maintain packages for tcp wrappers for CentOS. (Yes, admins can compile their own packages, but that'd be something not directly CentOS-related.) --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us