Docker installed by default due to cockpit dependency chain

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday, March 06, 2015 07:32:21 AM Stef Walter wrote:
> On 05.03.2015 15:13, Václav Pavlín wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am not sure if that was intentional or not but to be sure, I'd like to
> > bring up this dependency "issue":
> > 
> > We've tried to install minimal Fedora with KS where in %packages was
> > just @core. This installed
> > 
> > fedora-release-server -> cockpit -> cockpit-docker -> docker(-io)
> > 
> > I understand why Cockpit is installed by default but I don't think
> > docker should be part of such minimal install..
> > 
> > My proposal would be to change the dependency so that
> > fedora-release-server
> > 
> >     Requires: cockpit
> > 
> > docker-io
> > 
> >     Requires: cockpit-docker
> > 
> > This would mean non-existent Containers page in Cockpit in minimal
> > install which would magically appear when the user installs docker.
> 
> It is indeed up to the Fedora Server WG which features (and packages)
> Fedora Server has installed by default.
> 
> In Cockpit we will try and respect that, and indeed it is incorrect for
> Cockpit to be dragging in large features via dependencies.
> 
> A few notes:
> 
>  * It seems like docker is (becoming?) a staple feature of a modern
>    server, much like sendmail would have been a decade ago.
> 
>  * Based on user feedback, the Containers page is the most used feature
>    of Cockpit.
> 
>  * docker is only available on x86_64 ... ditto for cockpit-docker
Not true, docker is available and works on arm. there is also no reason why 
i686 can not be supported also.

Dennis

>  * Since the cockpit-0.41 release, we can remove cockpit-docker and the
>    'Containers' UI will disappear within Cockpit. Previously it was more
>    tightly bound.
> 
>  * The cockpit-docker package has no dependencies other than docker and
>    consists solely of a few resource files (javascript, html, etc.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stef
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