Removing firewall-config from the default install of Fedora Workstation

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 07:00:38 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 16:38 -0400, Liam wrote:
> > Personally, I've never had to adjust the firewall for (web)development
> > reasons, but for personal use I most certainly have
> 
> Why did you need to adjust your firewall settings? Are you sure that
> would still be required given the permissive default configuration in
> F21?
> 
> > (and being able to type in firewall, and having it popup, AND knowing
> > it's the tool that should work, unlike installing random firewall app
> > X, is a nice feeling).
> 
> I'll take that one step further: to whatever extent we identify firewall
> configuration to be necessary -- hopefully not at all -- we need to get
> that configuration into System Settings.

I would hope not.

A firewall configuration tool isn't necessary in Fedora Workstation, and it's not
one I would want to add to the Settings even if it was necessary.


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