Another selinux rant

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Jan 4, 2008 12:01 PM, Ed Swierk <eswierk at arastra.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/08, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One would hope you would have installed it by now. There is a very
> > nice command-line usage of setroubleshoot. I have never used the UI
> > myself. Frankly, I don't know how you've been using SELinux without
> > setroubleshoot.
>
> It wasn't installed by default and I don't know how I should have
> known to look for it (again, the audit log messages don't even mention
> SELinux). If this is considered a key part of SELinux then Anaconda
> shouldn't enable SELinux without it.

Well it's a key component to managing SELinux, it doesn't actually
help SELinux to work.

> I assumed it was graphics-only because yum wants to drag in all sorts
> of gnome and gtk2-related packages when I install it.


Yah. I'm not fond of how it is packaged myself... but since I can't do
better, i don't complain about it... it really does drag in too much
stuff however.

-- 
Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine
( www.pembo13.com )