[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 09/24] busybox: selinux support

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Clayton Shotwell,

On Mon, 18 May 2015 09:14:54 -0500, Clayton Shotwell wrote:

> >> +config BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SELINUX
> >> +       select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSELINUX
> >> +       depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
> >> +       depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
> >> +       bool "Enable SELinux support"
> > Does not this option also need to select
> > BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_INDIVIDUAL_BINARIES?
> 
> Those features are not necessarily dependent, it mostly depends on
> what parts of busybox are being used. For instance, if a configuration
> only used a couple of minor busybox features, such as simple command
> line utilities, the symlinked version of busybox could be used to save
> space. If busybox was providing more features, such as crond, then
> individual binaries would have to be enabled for the SELinux type
> transitions to occur properly. I would like to leave that up to the
> individual user to enable the individual binaries as needed.

Then exactly this needs to be copy/pasted in the help text of this
option :-)

Thomas
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