On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Felix Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > That's cool, I think we should be allowed to be grumpuses (grumpi?) here :-)
:-) > The whole cron.d thing is https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/746 and > I have started working on that, but it's far from becoming useful. > > We won't be able to deprecate the crontab provider any time soon, I believe. Why not focus on a cron.d provider that is really solid, and then start the crontab provider deprecation process (mediated by whatever timeframe is appropriate)? > Personally, I think we should allow users to shoot themselves in their > respective feet to their hearts content, if some of them think the > facility for doing so can be worthwhile. Well, that is valid... only if the worth of the dangerous feature is solid. IOWs, assume a few users will misunderstand or just plain not read the docs and set it without meaning to. I guess I cannot see the value of purging entries _that puppet did not install in the first place_. I mean, there are lots of odd jobs that I get puppet to perform by getting it to execute a bit of shell code, and "nuke all crontab data for this user" seems to fit :-) "Self contained" is a good goal, if an enhancement will deal with puppet removing properly entries that puppet installed, then it seems right. > When all is said and done, I will gladly bury the crontab provider, then > exhume it, burn it and scatter its ashes throughout the source tree. It > will be awesome. I'll be the one serving champagne... cheers, m -- [email protected] - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CACPiFC%2BOewq-QoyfNwvtjWz0f_y3xXykZM-KQogX%2BTN6_RuUtA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
