From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:05:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110802160554.68059c64@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E38123E.90709@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:05:34 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 10:54 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> > I was thinking something even dirtier, something outside of the
> >> > PMS altogether, along the lines of what one does when converting
> >> > to a selinux system where one relabels the entire filesystem
> >> > with rlpkg. So no, not something via pkg_postinst().
>
> > Please don't.
>
> Why would this be bad?
Because going behind the package mangler's back results in horribly
screwed up systems (as anyone who's ever used lafilefixer will tell
you...).
This is something worth solving properly, and because of all the damage
it can cause if done badly, it's worth not doing at all until a proper
solution is available.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-31 14:43 [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo Anthony G. Basile
2011-07-31 19:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-07-31 20:00 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 7:08 ` Michał Górny
2011-08-02 14:28 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 14:51 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:05 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2011-08-02 15:19 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-08-02 17:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:36 ` Jonathan Callen
[not found] ` <20110802173846.AF04F21C12C@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-08-02 17:39 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 20:46 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-08-03 1:19 ` Duncan
2011-08-03 0:29 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 11:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:26 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 21:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:52 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-02 15:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2011-08-02 15:09 ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:28 ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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