Package List Discussion

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Thu May 29 19:16:51 UTC 2014


Elad Alfassa wrote:
> Personally I think having virtualization that works out-of-the-box is an
> excellent selling point and we should keep gnome-boxes (and libvirt) by default.

Could you provide a reasoning that isn't based on opinion? Based on the WS PRD 
and other wiki pages virtualization isn't covered by "providing a platform for 
development of various types of applications."

I also would bet hard cash that outside a subset of Red Hat customers that use 
libvirt, most people will not use libvirt. Let's drop the FOSS bias and face 
reality. No offense to the individuals who work on it. If libvirt and it's 
substantial baggage was dropped it would open up room for docs (GTK2+GTK3 docs 
are only ~2.5MB each xz compressed) or other packages more valuable to the WS 
product's mission.


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