raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

Thomas Woerner twoerner at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 11:53:10 UTC 2012


On 11/12/2012 08:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> I really don't understand why a core system component such as firewalld is
>> implemented in Python!
>
> Here, I mostly don't see the reason for it to be running all the time.
> Couldn't it be dbus activated, and then go away when it's not needed? Then,
> it would matter less what it was written in.
>
It would loose internal state if it would be D-BUS activated. Also each 
call would take a lot longer, which is bad for example for libvirt.

>
> And for reducing space use: I think it might also be nice to break python
> 2to3 and idle out of the python-libs package.
>
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