On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:39:51PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Here is a proposal for a drastic first cut, dropping tools that are > > dysfunctional or obsoleted by other modules or of limited use or totally > > uninteresting for the target audience of a desktop spin: > > Cool, thanks for doing this. > > > - s-c-firewall > > I'd nuke this one too. Along with modifying the desktop livecd ks file > to completely disable the firewall. Should be easy enough, I think the > kickstart syntax has a shortcut for this. > > (The rationale for why the above is the right thing to do for the > _desktop_ livecd can be found in the archives for this list and the > archives for fedora-devel-list. Please familiarize yourself with these > threads before flaming. Thanks.) Has anyone talked with the s-c-firewall maintainer and other interested parties to see what could be done to change the model by which it works? E.g.: * Punching holes where needed to support Avahi, user file sharing, ... * Setting networks up for trust, so you could operate more freely on your home wireless, but be less trusting at a new wireless network you don't own >From what I hear, Thomas Woerner was interested in collaborating on these features. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
