Comment 3 for bug 1568642

I've tried sorting the data on the server side, before it goes out to the client. The client still has it's own default sorting method, which is not how it was sorted on the ajax side. So this approach seems like a dead end at the moment.

I think this was added because flavors and images are things that take a long time to completely deprecate / eliminate for deployments, and deployments would like to push users into using one set of images / flavors vs have them see old ones. For example, we don't want users deploying with ubuntu 12.04 if 16.04 is out.... etc.