On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:42, Thomas Molina wrote: > > Please do not use that abomination called kudzu to determine policy. > > > > First off, userland tools have no place in determining policy in my > > opinion, especially not in the case of removable media. > > > > Secondly, I despise kudzu. It is an abomination which get removed > > forthwith from any system I maintain. > > Oh, come on now, Thomas, please, don't hold back; tell us how you really > feel :-). > > Seriously, though, I am curious to know what is wrong, here. Aside from > the fact that kudzu is for hardware detection and SELinux is not > hardware, why is kudzu (in your opinion) is so "evil"? All hyperbole aside, it is a userland tool which has the potential to affect policy with unintended consequences. I have seen it mess up hardware detection enough that I don't don't trust it. While there is a need for a hardware detection tool for setting up a system, I don't believe it is something which needs to be run as a background daemon as RedHat has it set up. We have hotplug and friends for USB and those parts of the system designed to have components dynamically added and removed.
