Request to re-add option to disable SELinux

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri Jul 4 20:57:07 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:19:14AM +0500, Suren Karapetyan wrote:
> That's the most horrible direction of reasoning.

Its a very sane one

> With that we can easily remove every option from installation process.
> (What's the point in asking what packages You want... You can
> install/remove later... What's the point in changing default
> partitioning... it's OK).

The partitioning needs to be queried because the layout cannot easily be
adjusted. The packages likewise although it is become less so and as the
post install tools get better there is a good argument for pushing that
choice ot later.

> SELinux isn't just a specific setting... It's a bit too big.
> It's a feature 38.7% of systems in smolt have disabled...
> Removing that combobox is like telling this 38.7% (203150) 
> "know what... the other 61.3% (321879) don't like *seeing* choice of

That's meaningless. What percentage of those systems are running with
the correct choice for their system ?




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