From: pebenito@ieee.org (Chris PeBenito) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:20:30 -0500 Subject: [refpolicy] authbind policy should be removed In-Reply-To: <1667535.TLPEBetq8e@russell.coker.com.au> References: <1814654.EuWY9bQnYy@russell.coker.com.au> <1389698125.28251.31.camel@x220.localdomain> <52D53E8C.1040403@tresys.com> <1667535.TLPEBetq8e@russell.coker.com.au> Message-ID: <0352387b-1acf-8185-90fd-1d436462f619@ieee.org> To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com List-Id: refpolicy.oss.tresys.com On 11/22/16 19:57, Russell Coker via refpolicy wrote: > On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 8:41:32 AM AEDT Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: >> On 01/14/14 06:15, Dominick Grift wrote: >>> On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 21:52 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: >>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Dominick Grift wrote: >>>>> You do not have to install that module. If you don't want it then just >>>>> remove it from your modules.conf, or do semodule -r authbind if its >>>>> already installed. >>>> >>>> What is the point in having dead code in the repository? >>> >>> You have a point but it's not that compelling to me. There is plenty >>> (what i would consider) dead policy in contrib and as long as its not in >>> the way i personally do not really think it has much priority to remove >>> it. >>> >>> With the base repository it is bit of a different story as far as i am >>> concerned. >> >> Looking at the policy, my guess is that its nowhere near working. As >> Russell has pointed out, is been in existence for eons and hasn't improved. >> Since no one seems to have any interest in using it and it's broken, I'm >> fine removing it. It's still revision controlled, so if there is future >> interest, it can still be retrieved from the git history (not that there is >> much to the policy if it needs to be remade). > > Almost 3 years later and it's still in the repository, are we going to remove > it? Thanks for the reminder. It's gone. -- Chris PeBenito