Re: [Input Requested] Preset support for third-party services

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> They *could*, but most likely not in a fashion that is flexible enough.
> Essentially, shipping presets in the package itself is equivalent to
> statically enabling or disabling the services contained in that
> package (*). Presets are useful to provide different defaults for
> different Fedora flavours. In the case at hand, cloud setup services,
> it would be reasonable to include a preset to enable them, but only in
> Cloud variants. If the user installs one those packages on
> Workstation/KDE/whatever, it makes sense to default to "off".

Requires: (proprietaryware-preset-cloud if fedora-release-cloud)

> Any rpm that is installed already gets effectively full control over
> the system (directly without any effort, if scripts are not disabled,
> and they must not be for presets to work). So "name hijacking" would
> be an unnecessary detour at that point.

True. Still, the potential for name conflicts is there.

        Kevin Kofler
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