* david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> wrote:
Anybody who says "I want to run Fedora without SELINUX because I do my own security development" is by *definition* not relevant to the whole feature.
Don't mistake the example for the feature. the SELINUX thing is just an example. As Alan Cox commented, taking a distro config and disabling one thing is a common troubleshooting request from kernel developers.
It's still irrelevant:
- if a user chooses a distro config it means that he is using that distro. Disabling an essential component of the distro config, even if a kernel developer asks for it, will likely break that distro and is thus a dumb thing to do. (the typical user will also be unlikely to be *able* to edit a .config and make sure it works.)
that's assuming that everything listed really is essential.
See the requirements in Linus's earlier mail: -------------> The *two* requirements (and they're really the same theme) I personally think we should have for this are - I think every single "select" for these things should come with a comment about what it is about and why the distro needs it (to show there was some thought involved and not just a blind "took it from the distro config") - It should be about *minimal* settings. I'd rather have too few things and the occasional complaint about "oh, it didn't work because it missed XYZ" than have it grow to contain all the options just because somebody decided to just add random things until things worked. <------------- Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org