> This is really weird.  It seems I can say the most absurd things today and
> people will take me quite seriously.  If only I could figure out to harness
> this new found power...
>

Are you certain that you're not the one taking my joke seriously?


> That's why I'm suggesting we provide some way of indicating which files we
> consider "managed" for the purpose of this ral operation; either that or we
> should eliminate the analogous functionality of "ralsh host", "ralsh user",
> "ralsh package" etc.
>

We don't, yet, have a persistent notion of "managed" - it only exists for
the duration of a puppet run. I'd like to see that change, but it's beyond
the scope of this bug.


>
> My objection is to the rule being "we can discover resources unless there
> might be more than some arbitrary number of them in which we get serious
> about not talking about unmanaged resources."  Or, to put it another way,
> how would you feel if the find command refused to enumerate all the files on
> your system because there might be too many of them?
>

We already make judgment calls what to list or not, based upon some
intuition of "usefulness". It would be possible for "ralsh package" to list
all **absent** packages that are listed in your repository, but instead it
only lists things that have been installed.
Until we expand ralsh to take parameters, I think that the only useful
behaviors for `ralsh file` are "not implemented" or "files in the root
directory"

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