selinux-policy-devel?

[Daniel J Walsh]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Perhaps the selinux-policy package should be split into an 
> selinux-policy and selinux-policy-devel package, with the -devel 
> package being needed for building new policy/modules, and the base 
> policy package containing just the stuff needed for regular runtime 
> usage?
>
> I suggest this because I just tried building a policy module in mock 
> with the new minimal environment and it fell over because building 
> policy modules requires m4, which is not in the minimal environment. 
> So m4 needs adding as a dep of selinux-policy (it's referenced from 
> /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/Makefile), and this is really a 
> devel-specific package that shouldn't be needed by most people, hence 
> splitting off a -devel subpackage and adding the dep to that makes 
> more sense. The -devel package could also have a dep on checkpolicy, 
> which would be nice...
>
We have gone back and forth on this one.   The original idea was to make 
it easier for people to build custom policy and not have to go looking 
for this package.
> Paul.
>
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