Discussion of Fedora Server use-cases

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 10/28/2013 07:15 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg at gmail.com) said:
>> You never deploy a desktop on a server so I would say we would limit
>> this to a base/coreOS a set of administrative tools + a single
>> application and or a application stack and the way we would deliver
>> the products would be something that we would limit to netinstall +
>> ks or something that integrades well with provisioning tools
> I wouldn't say "never", given that somewhere around 20% of the users of a
> Fedora-downstream distribution do install a desktop on their server, as of
> a random sampling of a user subset done a while back.
>
> Given, that sample should be followed up on to see *why* they do it
> (unfamiliarity with CLI/used to Windows, bad defaults in installer, other
> reasons?). In fact, if we're being forward looking where *everything* is
> deployed at large-scale, then this number should be expected to go down as
> fewer people are doing single-digit deployments. But the need may still
> exist for some people

Those users can then always first install their DE of choice then the 
server application unless of course
If it has dependence on the presence of an gui in some form ( or a 
browser ) we ship *that* particular server application with dependency 
on it but for any third party stuff that's something we should not be 
worrying about unless upstream comes to it's sense and decided to 
package it, maintain it and ship it downstream with us ( which makes it 
our responsibility ).

JBG