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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disabling SELinux support in GLib?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:18:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo9ctuf7.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k15csggf.fsf@devup.no>


Hi Marius,

> The 'glib' package gained SELinux support back in commit
> 6c237a2d7bfa3c7be02c069e5c24a2b401a51864.  We do not currently support
> SELinux in Guix System, so I'm not sure if it is worth having it in
> GLib.  Perhaps it can be useful on foreign distributions?

I’m pretty sure that I added it back then because it was needed by
something else down the line.  Unfortunately, I do not recall what that
may have been.

> It does not add a lot to the GLib size (~3.8 MiB), but it is a
> propagated dependency that can be easily avoided.

Can we somehow avoid propagation instead?

-- 
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-27 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-27 22:05 Disabling SELinux support in GLib? Marius Bakke
2020-01-27 22:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-01-27 23:08   ` Marius Bakke

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