Am 21.03.2014 01:17, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
On Thu, 20.03.14 20:55, Hans de Goede (hdegoede(a)redhat.com) wrote:
> So offer something with equivalent functionality (and config file
> syntax compatibility), with a nice modern clean API and then systemd
> and others can be moved over to that 1 by 1, and once we've no more
> users left we can kill of the old beast ?
Nope. In systemd we already support one subsystem for filtering just
fine, it's called a firewall. I am looking for a way to simplify things,
and remove unnecessary redundancies. And just rewriting something that
is redundant and a bad idea in the first place, certainly doesn't help
there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_in_depth#Non-military_examples