Re: SELinux Suggestion
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:45:18 +1000, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> said:
> Why not make a different section on the normal stable / testing /
> unstable streams. so non-free contrib and selinux place all the
> selinux patch stuff under there ?
Firstly, contrib and non-free are not part of Debian; and they
are there because of non-free licensing issues. SELinuxis free.
Secondly, adding a section is a lot of work, and has a lot of
administrative overhead. People doing the work would have to be
convinced that this is worth doing. I, for one, remain unconvinced and
unwilling to spend my spare time doing that.
Debian does not create a separate section for Gnome. or KDE. Or
X versus unbloated text mode. Server vs user. Of Emacs vs vim. Or Perl
vs python. I could go on about gazillions of variations, where each one
of these pairings is only useful to a subset of the user base.
Frankly, unless there is some concrete indication that the
current SELinux integration is creating problems or perceptible
(benchmarked) performance hits, I am not sure there is any basis for
asking all this extra work to be done.
manoj
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