[libvirt] [PATCH] Make the use of XDG folders variable

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 14:40:36 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:31:10PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> While ago, commit 32a9aac2e04c991340b66c855a1095e4e6445e54 introduced
> a change of the folders used to keep information in user home
> directories.  As this can still cause problems, mainly with older
> SELinux policies, make this change variable with new configuration
> option '--disable-xdg'.
> 
> ---
> Sorry for not splitting this patch, but either having the option and
> not making it work or the other way around is pretty bad (and having
> it in repo as a commit even worse).

NACK to this change.

If a distro chooses to deploy the new libvirt release, they should be
deploying updated SELinux policy to match.

Daniel
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