Default Services in the Fedora Workstation

[drago01]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> > Does the "Fedora Workstation" vision means we can disable (or even
>> > remove)
>> > all enterprise stuff (nfs, iscsi, and lots of other pointless services
>> > for
>> > desktops) by default in our product?
>>
>> It could.  I don't think we're quite to that level of detail yet though.
>>
>> > Can we, for example, ask the Anacoda team to make dependencies on
>> > enterprise-class storage optional, thus enabling us to not ship it by
>> > default on the workstation product?
>>
>> I doubt this is really specific to anaconda.  I don't think they want
>> to create a separate installer for all the products and they are going
>> to need those dependencies on the install media to accomplish installs
>> for other products.
>
> My idea was to conditionally load those libraries. If they are not present,
> disable enterprise storage support in the UI. Sounds not too complicated.
>>
>> That doesn't mean the enterprise-class packages
>> need to be _installed_ on a Workstation install though.
>
> It does, at least if we continue do live installs the way we do them now
> (rsync)

Yeah that way we even end up with anaconda on the installed system
which makes no sense at all.
Maybe we need some postinstall phase to remove such stuff.