On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600 > > schrieb Thomas S Hatch <thatc...@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?
