On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jesse Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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? > No. And I just had a stack error trying to figure it out. Drat. I just _have_ to figure out how to do tail call elimination so I can just go catatonic instead. > 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. > Yep. > 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. > That would make the file case a lot easier to generate but significantly slower. :) > 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" > I'm for "files in the root directory" if no name is specified and then when/if we add parameters we're well positioned to have reasonable semantics. -- M ----------------------------------------------------------- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
