Include other services in a service definition

[Michael Anckaert]

Hello everyone

I wanted to check with the developers here on whether this would be a
good idea / desirable.

Something I have ran into myself and have seen on various channels is
the request to add a service 'link' to the definition of a service. A
recent ticket on Github gives a perfect example of this:
https://github.com/firewalld/firewalld/issues/

A rough example such a service definition could be that instead of having this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<service>
  <short>Red Hat Satellite 6</short>
  <description>Red Hat Satellite 6 ...</description>
  <port protocol="tcp" port="53"/>
  <port protocol="udp" port="53"/>
  <port protocol="udp" port="67-69"/>
  <port protocol="tcp" port="80"/>
  ...
</service>

We could have this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<service>
  <short>Red Hat Satellite 6</short>
  <description>Red Hat Satellite 6 ...</description>
  <service name="dns" />
  <service name="http" />
  <port protocol="udp" port="67-69"/>
</service>

I would like to contribute some development time on this but wanted to
check here first if this is something that would be accepted or what
the general feeling is for this functionality.

Kind regards
Michael