On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:31:54 PM MST Christopher wrote:
We're getting off-topic, but really quickly: Yes, you can select
advanced packaging (at least you could in the past... probably still
can). You can also use kickstart to automate installs with custom
package installations and configuration using the same Workstation
ISO, and you can also just open a new TTY (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3),
customize your system, and reboot without ever logging in to GNOME.
I don't know how that would possibly pull in the GNOME Spin's firewall config,
if you select a different set entirely, unless they're doing some odd package
mangling that I'm not aware of.
I'm not talking about users that do the default install, and then switch to a
TTY, because that's going to be a very small number of the userbase of the
Workstation product.
It's not "GNOME's firewall zone". As previously
mentioned, it's not
pulled in by GNOME at all. Rather, it's being provided by the
firewalld RPM itself, and configured by default, based on the contents
of /etc/os-release (which is provided by the
fedora-release-workstation RPM).
It is specific to the GNOME Spin. I don't imagine /etc/os-release would be set
to that when another package set is selected, if that's even possible with the
GNOME Spin's installer. Simply using the install media is not enough to put
the fedora-release-workstation package into other options' package sets.
The main point is that it's not GNOME-specific at all, but it is
Workstation Edition-specific.
That's what I'm referring to as the GNOME Spin, because it's not fair to call
it anything else, unless you're talking about how it's able to do all kinds of
nonsense, like this, that Spins can't get away with. Calling it
"Workstation",
when speaking of anything other than the name it's adopted and been approved
with, is dishonest at best, as it's certainly not the only workstation option
in Fedora, nor is it the best, which is subjective. This is an important
distinction, which needs to be made at some point.
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