[DSE-Dev] Legacy ptys and futur of the selinux-basics package.

[Russell Coker]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> wrote:
> I was wondering, is the no-legacy-ptys.rules udev rule file still
> necessary? It seems that the old fashion tty devices are properly
> labeled, I'm thinking about dropping that file completely (in
> experimental).

The old fashioned tty devices might be properly labeled, but AFAIK they NEVER 
worked correctly in the past and I don't expect things to have improved over 
the years of them not being used.

> I was also thinking about getting rid of that package (moving the
> initscript doing the relabeling stuffs in the policycoreutils package)
> or maybe only keeping it for troubleshooting purposes.
> 
> Any comments on this?

The current way things are relabelled is ugly, if you have ideas for improving 
it then that would be great.  But it will be a major PITA which is why I've 
never done anything about it, the current setup works well enough for me to 
devote my time to other things.

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