selinux lib removal

[Brian Richardson]

You pretty much have to replace your entire OS. Practically all 
important system binaries are linked to libselinux.

Brian

On 4-Nov-04, at 4:04 AM, John Logsdon wrote:

> Hi
>
> I specifically *don't* want to use selinux and in particular I don't 
> want
> to depend on libselinux.so.1 that I can't remove.
>
> [root at pan pan]# rpm -e libselinux
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) 
> device-mapper-1.00.14-3
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) psmisc-21.4-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) shadow-utils-4.0.3-21
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) vim-minimal-6.2.457-1
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) findutils-4.1.7-25
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) coreutils-5.2.1-7
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) lvm2-2.00.15-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) rpm-4.3.1-0.3
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) pam-0.77-40
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) policycoreutils-1.11-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) SysVinit-2.85-25
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) util-linux-2.12-18
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) prelink-0.3.2-1
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) passwd-0.68-8.1
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) usermode-1.70-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) logrotate-3.7-4.1
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) star-1.5a25-5
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) at-3.1.8-53
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) sudo-1.6.7p5-26
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) vixie-cron-3.0.1-87
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.1.1-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) fam-2.6.10-9
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) usermode-gtk-1.70-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) vim-enhanced-6.2.457-1
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) gdm-2.6.0.0-3
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdelibs-3.2.2-4
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdebase-3.2.2-4
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdepim-3.2.2-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdemultimedia-3.2.2-2
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.3.1-0.3
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) rpm-devel-4.3.1-0.3
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdeutils-3.2.2-3
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by (installed) kdesdk-3.2.2-2
>         libselinux >= 1.11.3-1 is needed by (installed) 
> SysVinit-2.85-25
>         libselinux is needed by (installed) vixie-cron-3.0.1-87
>
> Would I need to compile all the programs that depend on libselinux 
> against
> another library before removing?  It does seem to me to be against the
> fundamental tenents of security to fork these programs.
>
> TIA
>
> Best wishes
>
> John
>
> John Logsdon                               "Try to make things as 
> simple
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