No more DEPENDs for SELinux policy package dependencies
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 02 November 2014I just finished updating 102 packages. The change? Removing the following from the ebuilds:
DEPEND="selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-${packagename} )"
In the past, we needed this construction in both DEPEND and RDEPEND. Recently however, the SELinux eclass got updated with some logic to relabel files after the policy package is deployed …