From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Disabling SELinux support in GLib? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:18:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87wo9ctuf7.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87k15csggf.fsf@devup.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iwCiY-00044Q-F8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:18:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iwCiX-0007vo-Eg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:18:50 -0500 Received: from sender4-of-o51.zoho.com ([136.143.188.51]:21175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iwCiX-0007uM-7K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:18:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <87k15csggf.fsf@devup.no> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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=E2=80=99m 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? --=20 Ricardo