Hello,

this is good news.

On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 12:31 +0200, Stefan Schantl wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> The remove of SELinux is done, still the feature is enabled in the
> kernel config, which is tracked by bug #11379 and assigned to Arne.

Please remind him to disable this with the next release.

> As you pointed in one of your mails to this list, there are still some
> packages which are depend on SElinux in our repositories.
> 
> For compatibility reasons, we should keep the selinux libraries for a
> while in the stable repository unless the build service is up again and
> all modified packages have been build, tested and moved to the stable
> repository...

Agreed.

> In the meantime, I will work on removing the audit subsystem from our
> distribution and then go on to remove X11.

Ok.

> The reason, why I have prior the remove of X11 support from cairo and
> python3 was, that now an IPFire 3 basesystem and also the build
> environment does not longer require any of the X11 libraries, which
> saves us some space on the system and images and fasten to setup
> the build environment a bit.

Indeed. Good idea. Please send patches. Ideally in patchsets of a good size and
not all individually to keep noise a bit down on the list.

Best,
-Michael

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -Stefan
> > Hello Stefan,
> > 
> > I just wanted to know what the status is on dropping SELinux from the
> > distribution as well as X.
> > 
> > I have seen that you started working on the latter, and I know that
> > we are
> > almost done with SELinux. But just asking to confirm.
> > 
> > Best,
> > -Michael