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On 03/27/2012 03:19 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 03/27/2012 05:15 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> I think "removing the legacy cruft" just for the goal of removing it is not 
>> helpful at all and is actually the main cause of "half baked", "half 
>> removed" stuff in Fedora.
> 
> Interesting how did you come to that conclusion?
> 
>> 
>> I assume that that mod_access_compat module only requires a few bytes, so I 
>> don't see why it should not be loaded by default forever (or at least as 
>> long as upstream supports it, which hopefully will be for the whole 2.4 
>> cycle).
> 
> Few bytes for mod_access_compat here, few bytes for something else there....
> 
>> 
>> Of course, web app packages in Fedora itself SHOULD be updated to the new 
>> directives, but that's not a reason to gratuitously break the old ones.
> 
> It's my experience that things dont seem to get fixed unless they are broken 
> and what "compat" does is just delaying the inevitable...
> 
> Those web app maintainers that actually bother to monitor upstream have 
> already made the necessary changes to their relevant component and did so as 
> soon as 2.4 got release and probably are just waiting until we start shipping 
> 2.4.
> 
> It's those that dont and they will drag their feets in doing so until that 
> compatibility is removed...
> 
> JBG

Joe, I am not sure how this effects SELinux labeling, if it does at all.
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