[arch-general] base stuff

[Yaro Kasear]

On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:43:51 Kaiting Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> > And on a side note, I don't like archlinux forcing users to use SELinux
> > because users should have a choice to use any MAC software they want.
> > That's why AppArmor /Tomoyo are nicer solutions cause they don't require
> > recompiling of packages -> increasing bugs/problems.
> 
> If we compile our packages with SELinux support, does that force users to
> use SELinux? I was under the impression that these changes would be
> completely benign on non-SELinux enabled systems. --Kaiting.

No, SELinux-patched tools do not force one to use SELinux. But they can 
potentially have plenty of bugs introduced by the patches. And there's the 
fact that SELinux is not necessary and there's not point in putting it in the 
default Arch install just for the minority who'll actually use it. At most, it 
should be in [core]. At the very least, [community]. I definitely see no good 
reason to make it part of the base install, though.