[arch-general] base stuff

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

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.