2015-11-18 16:01 GMT+01:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net>:
Am 18.11.2015 um 15:55 schrieb Miloslav Trmac:
> Functionality added by default, and especially as mandatory, on top of
> minimal install (whatever minimal install is this year), is not just
> useful the way a new feature is useful in an appliance; it is also (and
> IMO primarily) useful as making the “platform” more valuable because
> application writers can depend on the feature being always available,
> and users can expect the applications to be more easily deployed.
>
where do you draw the line?
if you have 100, 200, 300 server instances size matters and if you
open
the candle of worms "what *could* be useful" you end in fat default
installs to satisfy anybody
No, certainly not add everything somebody thinks *could* be useful; what
I’m saying is that the mandatory APIs *define* the product from the point
of view of application developers; so we definitely need to be careful
about what we want the product to be, and what APIs we can long-term
support at all; but if we have no always-available APIs, then, for
application developers, *we have no product*.
… OTOH now I have realized that perhaps we *do* want all the APIs to be in
Fedora Base/minimal, and the Server to only add the
servers/applications/appliance-like features. So I might have been
completely wrong about this.
Mirek