wild and crazy selinux dependencies?
Daniel J Walsh
dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 19:58:37 UTC 2008
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Tom Horsley wrote:
> I was just trying to remove as many selinux related packages as possible
> (a fedora 9 system) to avoid having to download their updates when I have
> selinux turned off anyway.
>
> Several of the rpms I tried to erase want to drag all kinds of ridiculous
> stuff with them, and I'm just sort of curious why.
>
> For example, attempting to erase policycoreutils results in this list:
>
> Removing:
> policycoreutils i386 2.0.52-8.fc9 installed 3.3 M
> Removing for dependencies:
> BackupPC noarch 3.1.0-3.fc9 installed 2.2 M
> a2ps i386 4.14-5.fc9 installed 3.9 M
> docbook-utils-pdf noarch 0.6.14-14.fc9 installed 110
> evince-dvi i386 2.22.2-1.fc9 installed 137 k
> html2ps noarch 1.0-0.1.b5.fc9 installed 226 k
> jadetex noarch 3.13-2.fc9 installed 6.9 M
> kpathsea i386 2007-30.fc9 installed 158 k
> linuxdoc-tools i386 0.9.21-16.fc9 installed 901 k
> mediawiki i386 1.13.2-41.fc9 installed 33 M
> moin-latex noarch 0-0.20051126.3.fc6 installed 64 k
> passivetex noarch 1.25-8.fc9 installed 333 k
> tex-preview noarch 11.85-7.fc9 installed 123 k
> texinfo-tex i386 4.11-8.fc9 installed 375 k
> texlive i386 2007-30.fc9 installed 4.1 M
> texlive-dvips i386 2007-30.fc9 installed 280 k
> texlive-latex i386 2007-30.fc9 installed 96 k
> texlive-texmf noarch 2007-22.fc9 installed 14 M
> texlive-texmf-dvips noarch 2007-22.fc9 installed 2.0 M
> texlive-texmf-fonts noarch 2007-22.fc9 installed 107 M
> texlive-texmf-latex noarch 2007-22.fc9 installed 26 M
> texlive-utils i386 2007-30.fc9 installed 447 k
> xmltex noarch 20020625-11.fc9 installed 114 k
> xmlto i386 0.0.20-3.fc9 installed 52 k
>
> How on earth could texlive need a dependency on policycoreutils? All tex does is
> read files, process the data, and generate new files. If tools that do that need
> selinux, why doesn't everything else on the system depend on it?
>
All of these are executing restorecon in order to set file context in
their post install correctly.
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