On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 12:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 12:49 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > Based on today's blocker review meeting discussion, and this email > > thread [1] I'd like to propose making only Fedora Media Writer the > > *officially supported* USB installation media creation tool, > > starting > > with Fedora 26. > > > > The practical implication of "officially support" means bugs for > > which > > we'd block the release. It doesn't make sense to block the release > > if > > myriad tools all don't succeed. We only really need one to work, > > and > > Fedora Media Writer is the cross platform tool we're investing in > > long > > term. > > > > The main idea of the proposal is to no longer block the release > > when > > Fedora Media Writer is working, but some other possibly useful ways > > of > > creating media aren't working. It doesn't mean those tools won't be > > fixed, or would be removed from the distribution, just means we're > > not > > holding up release for those alternative tools. > > > > Comments? > > There is currently no real way to use FMW on non-Fedora Linux > distributions that don't a) support Flatpak and b) have an > appropriate > Flatpak runtime for running FMW on (beyond compiling it yourself, I > guess). That sounds weird - why can't it be packaged for other distros by using the normal distro packaging mechanisms (RPM/deb,etc. packages) ? > > If we do not 'support' livecd-iso-to-disk any more, we no longer > support: > > 1) persistent storage (via overlays) > 2) non-destructive write _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
