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

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

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".
>

Instead of being exclusive, perhaps that should be an attribute. You
could be both desktop & server, or none of them, in which case it's
kind of bare-bone.

What about "desktop flavours" ? :)
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/flavours
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/

> The idea behind this is to simple allow apps as GNOME Boxes to sort
> how they'd present the medias to the users according to what the user
> needs.
>
> Is this approach okay? May I start implementing it?
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio
>
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