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Re:SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in y... by tremon on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:00AM (#31179973)
if the target users are advising each other to disable it... then the tool is definitely more complicated than it needs to be.

This does not follow. I you ask a 5-year to repaint the Sistine Chapel and the result is somehow less than stellar, are you similarly going to blame the paintbrushes used? There exists no situation where the task at hand is too complicated for the user?

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Re:SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in y... by gitgud on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:16PM (#31187008)
A better version of your example would be a 5-year-old that cannot open the packaging to get to the pieces of the paintbrush that need to be assembled, in order to paint his first stroke... that's the (arguably) unneeded complexity of SELinux
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