[arch-general] base stuff

[Yaro Kasear]

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 at 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?