On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hello.
I propose we remove firewall-config (the graphical firewall configuration
utility) from the default install of Fedora Workstation.
Rationale:
* The default Workstation zone file allows incoming connection to non-root
ports. This means most of the common usecases will "just work" out of the
box. Thus, most users will not need to touch their Firewall settings.
* People who do need it will be able to install it from GNOME Software quite
easily. Just search for "Firewall". There will be no confusion as this is
the only firewall configuration tool shown in GNOME Software.
* In general, we should avoid having app launchers for things that are
configuration utilities in the default install.
Unless there's major objection to this change in the following few days,
I'll remove it from the gnome-desktop group in comps.
I object for now. I'd like to hear more from Matthias, Christian, and
the firewalld contributors first. We already discussed this a while
ago and there has been work to make it more Workstation appropriate.
I don't think we should remove it without consensus from everyone that
has already been discussing this.
josh