I can attest that the reaction is justified. I would not like to have any Avahi in my datacenter. It can cause a myriad of issues in enterprise scaled enviroments (read thousands of servers).
Br Markus On 4 Dec 2014 17:35, "Stef Walter" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04.12.2014 16:22, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > >> [...] Can we have /usr/lib64/libpcp.so without an Avahi dependency? > >> Or should we treat PCP as an optional dependency of Cockpit and > >> structure our code so that PCP is more of an add-on, used when > >> available? > > > > Can we dig a little deeper? avahi-libs by itself is tiny (<200K); is > > its "Require: avahi" part the only problematic aspect? In Fedora20+ > > that's already gone (BZ913168); maybe that simply needs to be > > backported to RHEL*. > > For starters, you can see the reaction of a system administrator to > Avahi in that bug. I make no comment on whether such a reaction is > justified or not. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913168 > > So there are two reasons here: > > * We don't want a hard dep on "Avahi" to be a mental barrier to having > Cockpit on someone's server ... even if might have an optional > dependency on avahi in the standard Cockpit Fedora install. > > * Platforms like Atomic try very very very hard to get their bundled > software stack down to a minimum. I would like the cockpit-bridge > part of Cockpit to be usable anywhere. Even very lean environments. > We're working hard to get there. > > Having cockpit-bridge pull in an unused hard dependency on avahi-libs is > counter to both of the above goals. It seems that such a dependency > would need to be optional, which would make PCP be optional too. > > The pcp-libs dependencies on cyrus-sasl and nss are less problematic, > despite the fact that they'd be unused by Cockpit, since those are > software more typically installed on a server. > > Stef > > > _______________________________________________ > cockpit-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cockpit-devel > >
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