Package List Discussion

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> 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."

Read use-cases 2 and 3 of the PRD.  Virtualization is highlighted there.

> 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

Now who's reasoning on opinion?

This is Fedora.  We don't drop FOSS bias.  If there's a problem with a
FOSS solution, then in theory it gets reported and fixed.

> 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.

Space really isn't an issue at the moment.

josh