raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

Ales Kozumplik akozumpl at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 11:06:26 UTC 2012


On 11/12/2012 07:28 AM, 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.
>
> -sv
>

DNF is going to be a replacement for Yum, but the underlying libraries 
are C and I can imagine a simple, fairly straightforward tool on top of 
them that does the job for minimal install, all in C.

Ales


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