[DEP-BLOAT] 'policycoreutils' require 'python'

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon Aug 21 09:28:28 UTC 2006


Hello,

'policycoreutils' contains a dependency on 'python' and other python
modules. Because 'policycoreutils' has some low-level SELinux tools
(e.g. /sbin/restorecon) which might be required by other packages
(e.g. 'util-linux' in FC5), 'python' will be installed for packages
which do not require it.

Possible solutions:

* rewrite 'genhomedircon' in C
* move 'genhomedircon' plus the python modules into an own subpackage



Enrico




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