FC5T2 and Development issues, observations, and questions

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nathan Grennan wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>> Kindly enable SELinux and make sure it works rather than disabling it 
>> during the test releases thereby ensuring that problems dont get 
>> fixed. Reports bugs and post to this list if required. Firstboot 
>> stuff is optional. So the installer becomes more streamlined. If you 
>> want to change the developer's mind you need to provide detailed 
>> reasons.
>
>  I have run into too many selinux only bugs to leave it enabled, 
> especially with httpd. By it's very nature selinux goes against the 
> KISS principle. I understand that part of the point of releasing and 
> using test releases is for such testing, but why try to fix what is 
> broken by design?

Your two cents I guess. Would like to hear in detail the design issues 
and how to fix them taking into consideration the effect of the new 
reference policy.

> I have since thought that users could just revert to i386 UP kernels 
> if they had to, but on the flip side I have thought of situations were 
> SMP only could be a real problem. One example would be a driver a user 
> needs that is known to not play well with SMP. Their only recourse is 
> to either wait till the driver is fixed, or revert to a i386 install.

Or report the problem and get this fixed.

>> File a bug report.
>>
>  Ok, I expected the a developer to come back with an excuse similar to 
> the one I have gotten about using partition labels to mount.

Always worth a try.

--- 
Rahul 

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