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[PATCH 0/1] gnu: emacs: Add libselinux to inputs.

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Message #18 received at 35514-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: wednesday <jessejohngildersleve <at> zohomail.eu>, 35514-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35514: [PATCH 0/1] gnu: emacs: Add libselinux to inputs.
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 15:51:26 -0400

Hello,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your contribution [1].  It appears that we missed it.  Sorry
> for that.
>
> 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35514>
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 22:57, wednesday <jessejohngildersleve <at> zohomail.eu> wrote:
>
>> Adding libselinux to the inputs of emacs allows it to support it's
>> extended file attributes, so emacs can get and set the selinux context
>> of a file, as explained near the bottom of these pages here:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Extended-Attributes.html
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Changing-Files.html
>>
>> wednesday (1):
>>   gnu: emacs: Add libselinux to inputs.
>
> Well, I am not sure it is worth to add this selinux for the base Emacs.
> Maybe, such addition could be via a variant.  WDYT?

It only adds about 4 MiB to the 1.1 GiB+ closure of Emacs, so I applied
it to the staging branch as 15870cc08d.

Closing; thanks!

Maxim

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