[CentOS] SELinux threads, cynicism, one-upmanship, etc.

[Peter Farrow]

I go with the default meaning of default as well, unless your default 
definition is that its not default unless you specified default.

For the rest of use who use the queens english version of default, that 
means on, and enforcing....

Hughsjr, you're now in a corner and up to your neck in it, drop it, 
youre wrong....

:-P





Brian T. Brunner wrote:

>Well, hughesjr, I'm using the *default* meaning of "default":
>You'll get SELinux "on" on install if you don't take action to select it off.
>
>Automagic partitioning is also default, you have to take action to get into DiskDruid.
>
>Brian Brunner
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>Brian Brunner
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>>>>mailing-lists at hughesjr.com 11/21/05 09:39AM >>>
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>On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 14:15 +0000, Peter Farrow wrote:
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>>The point was, as its very much beta quality, it should be up to the 
>>user to ask for it, not have it dropped on them by default.
>>
>>Thats the point Brian was making, the essence of the reply to that was 
>>"its not enabled by default because you can turn it off"
>>
>>Which is, as we all know, is a rather absurd statement....which had to 
>>be remedied by, yes if you like, a pedantic reply, but a nonetheless 
>>valid one...
>>    
>>
>
>I disagree ... to me enabled by default would be like the core and base
>default packages .... they are turned on, and one can not turn them off.
>They are enabled by default, whether you need them or not.
>
>SELinux would be enabled by default if it were turned on that way.
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