On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:53:10PM +0100, Thomas Woerner wrote: > On 11/12/2012 08:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>I really don't understand why a core system component such as firewalld is > >>implemented in Python! > > > >Here, I mostly don't see the reason for it to be running all the time. > >Couldn't it be dbus activated, and then go away when it's not needed? Then, > >it would matter less what it was written in. > > > It would loose internal state if it would be D-BUS activated.
Surely it could persist it somewhere? However I doubt that changing firewalld to be dbus activated would make any actual difference to memory usage. We do have a thing called swap ... The reason I object to firewalld being written in Python are the excessive dependencies this adds for a component that should be included in a minimal/core set of packages. OCaml, you see ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
