[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 5 04:17:13 UTC 2010
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
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