Re: Feature request ... or How to.

On Mon, 3 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:

> If the goal is to save time by not having to research and avoid a whole bunch 
> of stuff you really don't need to know about to duplicate a known working and 
> recommended setup (and I'd think a lot of people might have that goal), 
> setting up puppet/cfengine, etc. seems like exactly the wrong approach.  With 
> them, you not only need to know exactly the configuration you want ahead of 
> time but also yet-another programming language unlike any other to make it 
> happen.  What we need instead is a package manager to do it for us, given a 
> working example to pull the setup from.

What you end up with is needing to tie your pkg mgmt system into your 
config mgmt system - which is true - you do need to do that- and have all 
of them driven from one place.

-sv