[Buildroot] [RFC] python: select vs depends on
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jan 10 07:42:18 UTC 2014
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:44:50 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I added in menuconfig options to all of the SELinux
> > packages to specifically enable the Python bindings. When that option is
> > enabled, Python is selected. Doing it this was way chosen after several
> > conversations with Thomas P. about the issue.
>
> Ah, interesting!
> So Thomas, what do you have to say for yourself? ;-)
In the SELinux libraries, the Python stuff is only used when you want
to *debug* SELinux (i.e tune your SELinux policy). Therefore, it is
unlikely that you will need all these SELinux Python bindings on a
final production system. Therefore, it didn't seem appropriate to
enable them automatically when Python is enabled: you may well want to
have Python *and* SELinux on a system, but necessarily have all the
Python bindings of these SELinux libraries, since those are only needed
for debugging purposes.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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