selinux eradicator?

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jun 27 11:08:44 UTC 2007


Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'm never gonna use selinx, yet every new batch of updates
> seems to have yet another new version of a slew of
> selinux packages to download and install, with half of
> them wasting time doing find commands to do god knows
> what to every file on my system :-).
>
> Out of idle curiosity, I asked yum what would happen
> if I tried to remove every rpm that has selinux in
> its description.
>
> The result was that just about (maybe not even about)
> every single rpm on my system would be removed for
> dependencies.
>
> Is there any set of selinux stuff I can actually remove?
>
> Anyone working on a alternate repo of bizzaro-selinux
> packages that will satisfy the dependencies while only
> downloading a few hundred bytes and executing no complicated
> side effects when installed?
>
> Or maybe a selinux free fedora spin?
>
> Maybe on the more realistic side: How about a
> /etc/sysconfig/selinux variable I could set that
> would inform the rpms I'm never ever gonna enable
> selinux, and they can just skip all the time wasting
> nonsense they normally do when installed?
>
>   
    Tom we need to find place in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ where we can turn 
selinux OFF! If your not using it don't let init turn anything on. I 
will watch this computer come on and see if Selinux is turned on. I 
think it is.

Karl




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