Description of problem: With the Fedora.next initiative and three new Product deliverables coming, we need to have the ability to support different default configurations for packages when they are installed on different products. The representative example is firewalld, which will be shipped with a different set of default firewall rules on Fedora Server and Fedora Workstation. There will likely be others in the future. Additional information: FPC Ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/446 Draft Guideline Proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Per-Product_Configuration_Packaging_Draft
Creation of the new Fedora Products requires the ability for these products to differentiate their initial configuration states. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Alpha_Release_Criteria#Firewall_configuration is one representative justification. Others may exist.
Discussed at the 2014-07-16 blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2014-07-16/f21-blocker-review.2014-07-16-15.59.log.txt . This bug per se is rejected as a release blocker, as it does not violate the criteria in itself; it's more a dependency of at least one (and possibly more) bugs that *do* violate the criteria. We've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120296 for the Server firewall issue and accepted it as a release blocker, and it depends on this bug, so this bug is now a dependency of a release blocker, which gives it 'release blocker powers' - this is the setup we're comfortable with.
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