[Libosinfo] Request for feedback: Differentiate server/desktop ISOs

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Jun 25 18:50:34 UTC 2018


On 06/23/2018 10:10 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org> wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> I've talked to Felipe Borges a few days ago and he told me one thing
>> he'd need, from GNOME Boxes perspective, is whether an ISO is intended
>> to be a "Desktop" or a "Server" ISO.
>>
>> IMO supporting this on libosinfo should be fairly easy, but I'd like
>> to check with all you whether my approach seems okay, before start to
>> implement it.
>>
>> A simple "flavour" field in the <media> entry would do the job. We can
>> have an enum as "desktop", "server" and "default". The "default" would
>> be selected in case anything is specified and would be treated as
>> "it's not specific a desktop neither a server ISO".

Do we care about US (flavor) vs. UK (flavour) spelling?

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