Removing firewall-config from the default install of Fedora Workstation

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 29 15:12:58 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:58 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> OK, so with the information that Bastien and others have provided, we
>> need to make a decision quickly on this.
>>
>> Workstation WG members, the proposal as it stands is to remove the
>> firewall-config tool from the default install.  Could you please
>> review and vote on this as soon as possible?
>
> +1 for removing it from the default install; it doesn't seem necessary
> for any common tasks that most developers or other target users would
> need to perform, and should be easily discoverable for people who need
> to configure their firewall.

+1 to not having it in the default install.  I would stress that we
need to make it very easy to find in Software, which I think we're
already taking steps to do.

josh


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