About F19 Firewall

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Sep 25 19:04:16 UTC 2013


Luke Macken wrote:
> dnf is written in Python, so I don't think that'll be possible. The
> roadmap for 2.0 is apparently going to involve porting to Python3, which
> will most likely help with the memory usage, but not with the
> installation size.

We should be defaulting to some other Hawkey (or PackageKit) client, maybe 
pkcon? Or let's write a basic Hawkey client in C. All the actual logic of 
DNF is written in C, so I really don't see why we should be stuck with that 
Python wrapper.

        Kevin Kofler



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