raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

Jan Zelený jzeleny at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 07:37:25 UTC 2012


On 12. 11. 2012 at 01:28:10, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>  - depends on Python stack
> > 
> > +1, we really need to get Python out of the minimal installation.
> > 
> > The focus should be on replacing the existing Python-based packages in the
> > minimum set (e.g. yum) by native replacements (e.g. zif). Adding more
> > Python stuff with additional Python dependencies is a step backwards.
> > 
> > I really don't understand why a core system component such as firewalld is
> > implemented in Python!
> 
> Yum will likely be replaced with dnf afaik. I don't think zif is under
> consideration at all.

Yes, that's the plan. But dnf is still Python. So if we really want to get 
Python out of minimal install, there is a room for possible alternatives I 
guess. But none of this is certainly happening for at least a year or two, we 
don't want to break things by rushing.

Thanks
Jan
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