On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
schrieb Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com>:
Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would be to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to move to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in community.
I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are doing.
I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be named something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo would be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf above [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
Heiko
Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not fully support packages that have unofficial upstream patches applied? Isn't SELinux "unofficial" to all the upstream?