yum remove selinux*

[Neal Becker]

Tommy Pham wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't want/use selinux.  Any reason I shouldn't just do:
>>
>> yum remove selinux* ?
>>
>>
> 
> IIRC, selinux is part of the kernel.  Hence when you make any changes
> to/from SELINUX=disabled in the /etc/selinux/config, you have to
> reboot.

Yes, but my question is just whether it is safe to yum remove selinux*?  It 
seems rather widespread, and I just wanted to be sure it won't cause other 
problems if I remove it.