On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 20:47 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/08/2012 08:40 PM, David Lehman wrote: > > No. It is an inevitable consequence of the feature set demanded of the > > Fedora OS installer. > > > > If thing A must be able to set up and configure thing B and thing B > > changes in ways directly related to said configuration, how can you > > reasonably expect thing A to continue to be able to configure thing B > > without corresponding changes? Magic? > > I'm all for magic but I would expect specific configuration package(s) > and or a configuration template tailored for the component being install > which the installer might use or the package himself would simply do it > post install. > > Are there any specific use case where that would not suffice? One example of such a configuration package used to be system-config-firewall. Where is it now? What would happen if the installer were still calling "lokkit" to set up the firewall? It wouldn't work because the way that's handled has changed. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel