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

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?

After a shot discussion on IRC both Eric Blake and John Snow suggested
to use a synonym.
"purpose" seems to be a quite good one to avoid this issue and, if
people agree with the design, will be used when submitting the
patches!

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Best Regards,
-- 
Fabiano Fidêncio