selinux blocks lircmd

[kwhiskerz]

I had hoped that selinux would finally work. When I installed f8 and saw that 
it was set to enforcing and all but the lircmd mouse worked, I was 
encouraged. Perhaps it will finally work after all, once that problem is 
solved.

Then came a policy update this afternoon and I rebooted and when I looked, I 
saw that the system had been put into permissive mode. Now everything works 
just great. I was really hoping that everything would finally work great in 
enforcing, but I guess there must be a reason for permissive.

So, what is the difference between enforcing and permissive (since permissive 
is not disabled)? Does it block some things, but not everything?