On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Anselm Lingnau
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In actual practice, relatively few people will actually go to the trouble.

Well, at Starnix, it's a rare box that goes out that isn't buildable
with Puppet and any loose ends packaged up.  I know that this concept
is fairly foreign to the clients (and their IT) but I would like to
hope that other Linux-centric consultancies/support orgs would be
following this practice.

Any independents or support guys want to speak up?


> On the other hand, this would amount to LPI dictating policy to system

Well, we test DPKG and RPM.  Does that mean LPI policy is that orgs
should use both? :)
Moot point, I think, though, considering the next paragraph.


> administrators via the exam, which I would think is not what the exam is for –
> the exam should follow »best practices«, not try to force them where they
> don't actually exist in the field. LPI's method of arriving at exam contents
> seems to suggest that if package building doesn't show up to an appreciable
> degree in the JTA, LPI has no business sticking it in just because we like the
> idea.

And here, we're in complete agreement.  However, in order for this
topic to get into the JTA, someone has to suggest it.

PS - Thanks for the private response on the LPIC-1 projects.

If anyone else wants to send me ideas privately, I'd be happy to
summarise them for the list.

Regards,
-- 
G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]>                         gpg id: EF9AAD20
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