Why is Audit not installed by default in FC5?

[Kam Leo]

On 4/11/06, James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > I was searching for audit.log in /var/log to find why the FC5 vmware
> > client was generating avc denied messages.  I, then, realized that
> > audit was not installed. Can anyone tell me why audit is not installed
> > by default in FC5?
>
> See Dave Jones' livejournal:
> http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/32574.html
>
>     Or that audit is a resource hungry pig (Well, ok, this isn't
>     news) ... Given that most users don't actually give a **** about
>     audit, this is incredibly wasteful. Thankfully it's going to be
>     turned off for FC5 final. (Perhaps then my /var/log/audit won't take
>     up a large percentage of my /var partition either).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
> --

Thanks for the info.