Thanks for the education --- I know next to nothing about Red Hat systems.
I'll take you up on the PR.

If you look in pip.md under "Preparation", you'll see a tab for Debian. Add
one for RH systems. That will keep the clutter to a minimum.



On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 2:34 PM Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Disagree....
>
>    - On modern RH systems, selinux is enabled/enforcing by default.
>    RHish users are victims here. Their vendor gave them the os set up with
>    selinux enforcing for better or worse as the starting point.  Much like RH
>    systems have to use 'yum' rather than 'apt', they also have to deal with
>    selinux one way or the other.  Few RH users know this, nor know how.
>
>
>    - On a modern RH system,  no --user installation can possibly work at
>    bootup without fixing the selinux context (the recommended way) or
>    disabling selinux completely (not recommended, and requires editing a file
>    in /etc/sysconfig as root and rebooting before proceeding).
>
> Bottom line is we're talking about needing to add 'two' lines to the
> quickstart (one to install wheel, one to run chcon), and using the system
> init file contents (copy the debian tab verbatim and make it appear in the
> RH tab too).
>
> This also lets you be able to finally kill using init.d for modern RH
> systems and move to systemd like  for modern Debian systems.  Matthew's
> already said he wants to go systemd everywhere in the packages.  Why not
> get there for RH systems (via pip) too ?
>
> Again, I'm happy to do the two minute PR to make the RH --user
> instructions actually correct and able to succeed.  I've already tested
> that they work.
>
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