From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:08:59 -0400 Subject: [refpolicy] number of categories In-Reply-To: <201006281517.25532.russell@coker.com.au> References: <201006281517.25532.russell@coker.com.au> Message-ID: <1277730539.3850.10.camel@gorn.columbia.tresys.com> To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com List-Id: refpolicy.oss.tresys.com On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:17 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > It seems that everyone is using 1024 categories (Fedora/RHEL counts as "almost > everyone" and Debian counts as "almost everyone else"). > > I think it's the best thing to have the upstream policy defaults match what is > being most commonly used when there is no good reason to do otherwise, and as > the number of categories is entirely arbitrary there can't be a good reason to > do otherwise. > > Please apply a patch like the attached one. If nothing else it will save > about 50 lines from each distribution's patch. Dropped unrelated hunks. Otherwise merged. -- Chris PeBenito Tresys Technology, LLC www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com