Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release
Some distributions (such as Fedora) are using the VARIANT field to indicate to select packages which of several default configurations they should be using. For example, VARIANT=Server provides a different default firewall configuration (blocking basically everything but SSH and the management console) whereas VARIANT=Workstation opens many other ports for application compatibility. By adding this patch to the manual pages, we can standardize on a cross-distribution mechanism for accomplishing this. Fedora implementation details are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration (David: drop double paranthesis)
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