On 11/12/2012 07:28 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> - depends on Python stack
>
> +1, we really need to get Python out of the minimal installation.
>
> The focus should be on replacing the existing Python-based packages in
> the
> minimum set (e.g. yum) by native replacements (e.g. zif). Adding more
> Python
> stuff with additional Python dependencies is a step backwards.
>
> I really don't understand why a core system component such as
> firewalld is
> implemented in Python!
Yum will likely be replaced with dnf afaik. I don't think zif is under
consideration at all.
-sv
DNF is going to be a replacement for Yum, but the underlying libraries
are C and I can imagine a simple, fairly straightforward tool on top of
them that does the job for minimal install, all in C.
Ales