Re: Missing mplayer libraries (SOLVED)

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 10:53 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:

Then why is it on by default if permissive mode is broken and the
advice to people who experience problems is to turn it off and forget
about it?

SELinux's on by default, because it usually works (i.e. what does work
outnumbers what doesn't work, by a large degree, for most people).

Permissive isn't the default, currently, at least. Permissive is used
as a debugging mode (allow things to work, as if SELinux wasn't there,
but logging what's happens, letting you work out what rules you want to
configure). I'm not sure when it was discovered that permissive still
blocked some things, but it was brought up while trying to resolve some
CUPS issue, some time back.

Only *some* of the advice is to disable it. Much of the advice is to
work through the problem, and fix it. But when people throw their hands
up in the air, declare it's too hard for them, and say that they're
going to do something pointless with it (like run it in a manner that
doesn't offer any protection), then they may as well not run it at all.
It's simpler, the system has less work to do, and the results are more
predictable.

I hope that makes things a bit clearer.

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