Re: [New pre-depends] SElinux support for findutils.

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Andreas Metzler wrote:

[...]
>> This requires linkage against libselinux1. There is no problem with
>> priorities, both packages are Priority: required.
>> 
>> Since findutils is essential, the respective dependency ends up in
>> Pre-Depends. Which is why I am starting discussion on d-d. Personally
>> I do not care a lot. I am not using SElinux but the feature has been
>> explicitely requested by a user in #572809.
>
> This is not a "new pre-depends" strictly speaking,

I thought the point of discussing pre-depends in advance was to

(1) discourage using pre-depends, since they can make upgrades slower
or in the worst case impossible; and

(2) make it very difficult to produce a Pre-Depends loop by accident.

So I am not sure where the question of novelty comes in.

> so I'd say: go ahead.

Still, I agree with the conclusion.  This sounds to me like useful
functionality for systems with SELinux enabled, implemented in a good
way.

IANADD, HTH, HAND,
Jonathan