After discussion in the Base System project, we have decided to remove USE="tcpd" as a default enabled global USE flag. Rationale: In 2021, tcp-wrappers has been superseded by more powerful firewalling techniques, such as iptables, nftables or BPF. Not a single person in the project or outside the project is using tcp-wrappers, and pulling in this dependencies does not make sense anymore.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8f375926fb1e991d3aa84f889052a28b225f970b commit 8f375926fb1e991d3aa84f889052a28b225f970b Author: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-11-02 11:56:09 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-11-02 23:04:14 +0000 profiles/default/linux: drop USE="tcpd" from defaults Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/805077 Signed-off-by: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/22795 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults | 2 +- profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
