Removing firewall-config from the default install of Fedora Workstation

[drago01]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2014 02:21 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> I vote +1 for the proposal to remove firewall-config from the default
>> install.
>
> +1 from me too.
>
>> In addition, we can do some things to 'soften the blow':
>>
>> - Make sure that the firewall-config tool has good app data
>>
>> - Make sure that it shows up in searches for relevant terms: firewall,
>> network, iptables,...
>
> gnome-software now ships a gnome-shell search provider, which lets it
> match search strings from uninstall apps. So what we can do here is to
> avoid installing firewall-config in the default setup, but at the same
> time make sure that searching 'firewall' in gnome-shell finds
> firewall-config as the first result so it's easily discoverable and
> installable.

That's a very good point. Forgot about the search provider that makes
the "installed by default" vs. "not installed by default" even less of
an issue regarding discoverbility.