Removing firewall-config from the default install of Fedora Workstation

[Elad Alfassa]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

>
> Yep!  That's why I said "for now".  I just didn't want Elad to remove
> it in a few days before we actually discussed it.
>
>
Just to make things clear: I never intended to remove anything while
there's active discussion going on. I'm sorry that wasn't clear enough.

Since I'm working (both upstream and downstream) to polish our default
install set in the last few days it might seem to people that I'm in a
"remove everything spree". Let it be clear that this is not the case. I'm
simply doing whatever I can to make sure our product as polished as
possible. This includes removal of stuff that were needed before but now
are no longer needed - but something like firewall-config is not something
that can be removed before we all agree that our system will work well
without.

Fedora 21 is a very important milestone. Due to the long development cycle
people have extremely high expectations of Fedora 21, and as such we must
do our best to ship a product as polished as we possibly can.

To address some other points raised here, even if the firewalld team is
working on improving the UI, I still don't think it should be included by
default, as our default configuration means most people will not need to
touch firewall settings.

We can also add a note about it in the documentation so people will know
about this, something along the lines of "Fedora 21 Workstation allows
incoming connections to ports higher than 1025 by default. If you need to
run a server on a lower port number, such as a web server listening to port
80 (http), you can install the Firewall configuration utility from GNOME
Software to allow usage of this port".

-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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