Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:24:45
Message-Id: 20110802162037.72707e05@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:19:21 -0400
2 "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3 > Is rlpkg going behind the PM's back when it does selinux labelings?
4
5 Yup. Also, note that PMS has wording for selinux.
6
7 > I know there are difference, but if there's a screwup in some policy, it
8 > also leads to horribly screwed up system. Nonetheless, I'm not
9 > insensitive to what you are saying, and I think the safer approach
10 > would be to write a howto and show the user how to manually convert
11 > some typical binaries. There are only a handful that would be
12 > targeted.
13
14 Why are caps so important that we should be encouraging users to
15 subvert things, yet at the same time not important enough that they
16 should be handled properly?
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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