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    SubjectRe: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

    * david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> wrote:

    > > Anybody who says "I want to run Fedora without SELINUX
    > > because I do my own security development" is by *definition*
    > > not relevant to the whole feature.
    >
    > Don't mistake the example for the feature. the SELINUX thing
    > is just an example. As Alan Cox commented, taking a distro
    > config and disabling one thing is a common troubleshooting
    > request from kernel developers.

    It's still irrelevant:

    - if a user chooses a distro config it means that he is using
    that distro. Disabling an essential component of the distro
    config, even if a kernel developer asks for it, will likely
    break that distro and is thus a dumb thing to do. (the
    typical user will also be unlikely to be *able* to edit a
    .config and make sure it works.)

    - Furthermore, there's *already* over ten thousand select's in
    our Kconfig's, and it's already hard at times to disable
    dependent options.

    - I've been using what Linus suggested for many years via
    private patches to do bootable randconfig testing and the
    concept works just fine - enabling a distro specific
    minconfig is absolutely useful, I'm glad it's being pursued
    upstream as well...

    So what you are arguing about is IMO irrelevant, it is
    immaterial to the problem at hand and the concept works just
    fine in practice.

    Thanks,

    Ingo


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